Amos 3
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Hear you this word, O house of Israel, which the Lord has spoken concerning you, and
against the whole family whom I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2
You especially have I known out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I
take vengeance upon you for all your sins.
3
Shall two walk together at all, if they do not know Gr. themselves one another?
4
Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a lion’s whelp utter his
voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?
5
Will a bird fall on the earth without a fowler? will a snare be taken up from the
earth without having taken anything?
6
Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be
evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?
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For the Lord God will do nothing, without revealing instruction to his servants the
prophets.
8
A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? the Lord God has spoken, and who will
not prophesy?
9
Proclaim it to the regions among the Assyrians, and to the regions of Egypt, and say,
Gather yourselves to the mountain of Samaria, and behold many wonderful things in
the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it.
10
And she knew not what things Gr. shall be before her would come against her, says the Lord, even those that store up wrong
and misery
in their countries.
11
Therefore thus says the Lord God; O Tyre, your land shall be made desolate round about
you; and he shall bring down your strength out of you, and your countries shall be
spoiled.
12
Thus says the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or
a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria
in the presence of a foreign tribe, and in Damascus.
13
Hear, O you priests, and testify to the house of Jacob, says the Lord God Almighty.
14
For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will
also take vengeance on the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be broken
down, and they shall fall upon the ground.
15
I will Or, confound crush and smite the turreted-house upon the summer-house; and the ivory-houses shall
be destroyed, and many other houses also, says the Lord.