Amos 3 LSV

1. Hear this word that YHWH has spoken concerning you, O sons of Israel, concerning all the family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

2. “Only you have I known of all families of the earth, therefore I charge on you all your iniquities.”

3. Do two walk together if they have not met?

4. Does a lion roar in a forest and he has no prey? Does a young lion give out his voice from his habitation, if he has not caught?

5. Does a bird fall into a snare of the earth, and there is no trap for it? Does a snare go up from the ground, and it does not capture prey?

6. Is a horn blown in a city, and do people not tremble? Is there affliction in a city, and YHWH has not done it?

7. For Lord YHWH does nothing, except He has revealed His counsel to His servants the prophets.

8. A lion has roared—who does not fear? Lord YHWH has spoken—who does not prophesy?

9. “Sound to palaces in Ashdod, and to palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Be gathered on mountains of Samaria, and see many troubles within her, and oppressed ones in her midst.

10. And they have not known to act straightforwardly,” a declaration of YHWH, “Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.”

11. Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: “An adversary—and surrounding the land, and he has brought down your strength from you, and your palaces have been spoiled.”

12. Thus said YHWH: “As the shepherd delivers from the lion’s mouth two legs, or a piece of an ear, so the sons of Israel are delivered, who are sitting in Samaria on the corner of a bed, and in Damascus on that of a couch.

13. Hear and testify to the house of Jacob,” a declaration of Lord YHWH, God of Hosts.

14. “For in the day of My charging the transgressions of Israel on him, I have laid a charge on the altars of Beth-El, and the horns of the altar have been cut off, and they have fallen to the earth.

15. And I have struck the winter-house with the summer-house, and houses of ivory have perished, and many houses have been consumed,” a declaration of YHWH!