Amos 3

Revised Geneva Translation

3 Hear this Word that the LORD pronounces against you, O children of Israel; against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

² “You only have I known of all the families of the Earth. Therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.

³ “Can two walk together unless they are agreed?

⁴ “Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Or will a young lion cry out of his den if he has captured nothing?

⁵ “Can a bird fall into a snare upon the Earth if there is no lure? Or will a snare spring up from the Earth, having caught nothing at all?

⁶ “Or, shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Or shall there be evil in a city and the LORD has not done it?”

⁷ Surely the LORD God will do nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants, the Prophets.

⁸ The lion has roared! Who will not be afraid? The LORD God has spoken! Who can but prophesy?

⁹ “Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod; and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, ‘Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria. See the great tumults in the midst thereof; and the oppressed in the midst thereof.’

¹⁰ “For they do not know to do right,” says the LORD, “They store up violence and robbery in their palaces.”

¹¹ Therefore, thus says the LORD God: “An adversary shall come, spreading all around the country; and shall bring down your strength from you. And your palaces shall be plundered.”

¹² Thus 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 children of Israel, who dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, be taken out; and in Damascus, as in a couch.

¹³ “Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob,” says the LORD God, the God of hosts,

¹⁴ “Surely, on the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel. And the horns of the altar shall be broken off and fall to the ground.

¹⁵ “And I will strike the winter house along with the summer house. And the houses of ivory shall perish. And the great houses shall be consumed,” says the LORD. Against the governors of Samaria.