Amos 3

Hear this word that God has spoken against you, sons of Israel, against all of the family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “Only you have I known from all of the families of the ground. Therefore I will visit upon you all of your iniquities. \* 3 Will two walk together, unless they have agreed? 4 Will a lion roar in the forest when there is no prey for him? Will a young lion give his voice from his den, unless he has caught {something}? \* 5 Will a bird fall into a snare {on} the ground when there is no trap for it? Will a snare spring up from the ground, when capturing, it will not capture? 6 Or a shofar is blown in a city, and the people do not tremble? Or disaster happens in a city, and God has not done {it}? \* 7 For the Lord God will not do a thing unless he has revealed his secret counsel to his servants the prophets. 8 The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who will not prophesy? \* 9 Cause {people} to hear on the citadels in Ashdod, and on the citadels in the land of Egypt, and say, ‘Be gathered on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great uproars in her midst, and the oppressed within her.’ 10 And they do not know to do right”—the declaration of God— “those storing up violence and destruction in their citadels.” \*

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “An adversary—and around the land! And he will bring down from you your strength, and your citadels will be plundered.”

Thus says God: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, thus will the sons of Israel be rescued, the ones dwelling in Samaria, with a side of a bed and with a cover of a couch. \* 13 Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob”—the declaration of the Lord God, the God of Armies— 14 “for in the day of my visiting the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit upon the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground. \* 15 And I will strike the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory will perish, and great houses will come to an end”—the declaration of God. \*