Geneva1599 - Amos - 3

3:1  Heare this worde that the Lord pronounceth against you, O children of Israel, euen against the whole familie which I brought vp from the land of Egypt, saying,

3:2  You onely haue I knowen of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visite you for all your iniquities.

3:3  Can two walke together except they bee agreed?

3:4  Will a lion roare in ye forest, when he hath no pray? or wil a lions whelpe cry out of his den, if he haue taken nothing?

3:5  Can a birde fall in a snare vpon the earth, where no fouler is? or will he take vp the snare from the earth, and haue taken nothing at all?

3:6  Or shall a trumpet be blowen in the citie, and the people be not afraide? or shall there be euil in a citie, and the Lord hath not done it?

3:7  Surely the Lord God will doe nothing, but he reueileth his secrete vnto his seruantes the Prophets.

3:8  The lyon hath roared: who will not bee afraide? the Lord God hath spoken: who can but prophecie?

3:9  Proclayme in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the lande of Egypt, and saye, Assemble your selues vpon the mountaines of Samaria: so beholde the great tumultes in the middes thereof, and the oppressed in the middes thereof.

3:10  For they knowe not to doe right, sayth the Lord: they store vp violence, and robbery in their palaces.

3:11  Therefore thus saith the Lord God, An aduersary shall come euen rounde about the countrey, and shall bring downe thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shalbe spoyled.

3:12  Thus saieth the Lord, As the shephearde taketh out of the mouth of the lyon two legges, or a piece of an eare: so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus, as in a couche.

3:13  Heare, and testifie in the house of Iaakob, saith the Lord God, the God of hostes.

3:14  Surely in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel vpon him, I wil also visite the altars of Beth-el, and the hornes of the altar shall be broken off, and fall to the ground.

3:15  And I wil smite the winter house with the sommer house, and the houses of yuorie shall perish, and the great houses shalbe consumed, sayth the Lord.