Amos 3

1 Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying: ‡ Amo 2:10Jer 8:3Mic 3:12Ch 20:15Ezk 37:16-17Hos 4:1Isa 48:12Jer 31:1 +4

2 “I have chosen only you of all the families of the earth. ‡ Deu 7:6Exo 19:5-6Deu 10:151Pe 4:17Zec 14:17-18Deu 32:9Jer 14:10Jer 9:25 +19

Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”

3 Do two walk together, ‡ 2Co 6:14-16Gen 17:1Gen 5:22Gen 6:9

unless they have agreed?

4 Will a lion roar in the thicket, ‡ Hos 11:10Psa 104:21Amo 1:2Amo 3:8Hos 5:14

when he has no prey?

Does a young lion cry out of his den,

if he has caught nothing?

5 Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, ‡ Ecc 9:12Dan 9:14Jer 31:28

where no snare is set for him?

Does a snare spring up from the ground,

when there is nothing to catch?

6 Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, ‡ Isa 45:7Isa 14:24-27Zep 1:162Co 5:11Gen 50:20Jer 10:7Act 2:23Jer 4:5 +5

without the people being afraid?

Does evil happen to a city,

and the LORD hasn’t done it?

7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, ‡ Jhn 15:15Gen 18:17Psa 25:14Rev 1:1Dan 9:22-27Gen 6:13Dan 10:21Rev 4:1 +9

unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

8 The lion has roared. ‡ Act 4:20Amo 3:4Jer 20:9Amo 1:21Co 9:16Amo 2:12Amo 7:12-17Rev 5:5 +5

Who will not fear?

The Lord GOD has spoken.

Who can but prophesy?

9 Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, ‡ Amo 4:1Amo 6:1Amo 1:81Sa 5:1Amo 8:6Jer 22:8-9Jer 31:5Jer 50:2 +7

and in the palaces in the land of Egypt,

and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria,

and see what unrest is in her,

and what oppression is among them.”

10 “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD, ‡ Jer 4:22Zep 1:9Psa 14:4Zec 5:3-42Pe 3:5Amo 5:7Amo 6:12Hab 2:8-11 +2

“Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

11 Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‡ 2Ki 18:9-112Ki 15:192Ki 17:3-6Amo 2:5Amo 6:142Ch 36:192Ki 15:29Amo 3:10 +7

“An adversary will overrun the land;

and he will pull down your strongholds,

and your fortresses will be plundered.”

12 The LORD says: ‡ 1Sa 17:34-37Rom 11:4-5Isa 31:41Ki 20:301Ki 20:341Ki 22:252Ki 16:9Amo 9:2-3 +3

“As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs,

or a piece of an ear,

so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch,

and on the silken cushions of a bed.”

13 “Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord GOD, the God of Armies. ‡ 1Th 4:62Ch 24:192Ki 17:132Ki 17:15Act 18:5-6Act 2:40Act 20:21Amo 5:27 +6

14 “For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, ‡ 2Ki 23:15Hos 10:5-82Ch 34:6-7Hos 10:14-15Amo 5:5-61Ki 13:2-52Ch 31:1Amo 9:1 +2

I will also visit the altars of Bethel;

and the horns of the altar will be cut off,

and fall to the ground.

15 I will strike the winter house with the summer house; ‡ 1Ki 22:39Jer 36:22Amo 6:11Isa 5:9Jdg 3:20Psa 45:8Amo 3:11

and the houses of ivory will perish,

and the great houses will have an end,”

says the LORD.