MKJV - Amos - 3

3:1  Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, sons of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

3:2  You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

3:3  Can two walk together unless they are agreed?

3:4  Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey for him? Will a young lion cry out of his den unless he has caught?

3:5  Will a bird fall into a trap on the ground, and there is no bait for it? Will a trap spring up from the ground, and nothing at all be caught?

3:6  If a ram's horn is blown in a city, will the people not also tremble? If there is a calamity in a city, has the LORD not also done it?

3:7  For the Lord Jehovah will do nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

3:8  The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah has spoken; who will not prophesy?

3:9  Make it heard at the palaces of Ashdod, and the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Gather yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great uproars in its midst, and the oppressed in its midst.

3:10  For they do not know to do right, says the LORD, those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

3:11  So the Lord Jehovah says this: An enemy! And he shall be all around the land; and he shall bring you down from your strength, and your palaces shall be plundered.

3:12  So says the LORD: As the shepherd takes two legs out of the mouth of the lion, or a piece of an ear; so shall the sons of Israel be taken out, those who dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus on a couch.

3:13  Hear and testify in the house of Jacob, says the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts,

3:14  for in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel. And the horns of the altar shall be cut off and shall fall to the ground.

3:15  And I will strike the winter house together with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish. And the great houses shall be swept away, says the LORD.