LEB - Amos - 3

3:1  Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole clan that I brought up from the land of Egypt:

3:2  “You only have I ⌞chosen⌟ of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

3:3  Do two walk together unless they have met?

3:4  Does a lion roar in the forest ⌞when he has no prey⌟? Does a fierce, young lion cry out from his den unless he has caught something?

3:5  Does a bird fall into a trapping net on the earth when there is no snare for it? Does a trapping net spring up from the ground unless it has certainly caught something?

3:6  Or is a horn blown in a city and people are not afraid? Or does a disaster occur in the city and Yahweh has not done it?

3:7  Surely my Lord does not do anything unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets.

3:8  A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? My Lord Yahweh has spoken, who will not prophesy?

3:9  Proclaim to the citadel fortresses in Ashdod and the citadel fortresses in the land of Egypt and say: “Gather on the mountains of Samaria and see the great panic in her midst and the oppression in her midst!”

3:10  “They do not know how to do right,” ⌞declares Yahweh⌟, “those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses.”

3:11  Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, “A foe shall surround the land and bring down your strongholds, and your citadel fortresses shall be plundered.”

3:12  Thus says Yahweh, “Just as the shepherd rescues two legs or a piece of an ear from the mouth of the lion, so shall the ⌞people⌟ of Israel who dwell in Samaria, with the corner of a couch and the damask of a bed.”

3:13  “Listen and testify against the house of Jacob,” ⌞declares⌟ my Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.

3:14  “For on the day I punish Israel for ⌞its transgression⌟, I will also punish the altars of Bethel and the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

3:15  I will ruin the winter house as well as the summer house, and the houses of ivory will perish and the great houses shall come to an end,” ⌞declares⌟ Yahweh.