Amos 3:13
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New International Version (©2011)
"Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob," declares the Lord, the LORD God Almighty.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Now listen to this, and announce it throughout all Israel," says the Lord, the LORD God of Heaven's Armies.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob,” declares the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Declares the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Listen and testify against the house of Jacob-- this is the declaration of the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Listen and testify against the house of Jacob," declares the Lord GOD, the God of the Heavenly Armies,

NET Bible (©2006)
Listen and warn the family of Jacob! The sovereign LORD, the God who commands armies, is speaking!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Listen, and testify against the descendants of Jacob, declares the Almighty LORD, the God of Armies.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Hear you, and testify in the house of Jacob, says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

American King James Version
Hear you, and testify in the house of Jacob, said the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

American Standard Version
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord the God of hosts:

Darby Bible Translation
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts,

English Revised Version
Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

World English Bible
"Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.

Young's Literal Translation
Hear ye and testify to the house of Jacob, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, God of Hosts.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:9-15 That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness, will justly be brought down and broken. What is got and kept wrongfully, will not be kept long. Some are at ease, but there will come a day of visitation, and in that day, all they are proud of, and put confidence in, shall fail them. God will inquire into the sins of which they have been guilty in their houses, the robbery they have stored up, and the luxury in which they lived. The pomp and pleasantness of men's houses, do not fortify against God's judgments, but make sufferings the more grievous and vexatious. Yet a remnant, according to the election of grace, will be secured by our great and good Shepherd, as from the jaws of destruction, in the worst times.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - Hear ye; Septuagint, Ἱερεῖς ἀκούσατε, "Hear, O ye priests." The address is to the heathen, already summoned (ver. 9) to witness the sins of Israel, and now called to witness her punishment, In the house; better, against the house of Jacob, the tribes of Israel (ver. 1). God of hosts. God of the powers of heaven and earth, and therefore able to execute his threats. Septuagint, ὁ Παντοκράτωρ, "the Almighty."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob,.... The prophets and priests, whose business it was to speak to the people from the Lord, and declare his will to them, and to admonish them of their sin and danger, are here called upon to hearken to what the Lord was about to say, and to testify and publish it to the people of Israel, the posterity of Jacob, though sadly degenerated:

saith the Lord God, the God of hosts; the eternal Jehovah, the Being of beings, the God of the whole earth, the God of the armies above and below; and, being so great, ought to be heard with the greatest attention and reverence in what follows.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13. testify in the house, &c.—that is, against the house of Jacob. God calls on the same persons as in Am 3:9, namely, the heathen Philistines and the Egyptians to witness with their own eyes Samaria's corruptions above described, so that none may be able to deny the justice of Samaria's punishment [Maurer].

God of hosts—having all the powers of heaven and earth at His command, and therefore One calculated to strike terror into the hearts of the guilty whom He threatens.

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Witnesses against Israel
…12Thus said the LORD; As the shepherd takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch. 13Hear you, and testify in the house of Jacob, said the Lord GOD, the God of hosts, 14That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel on him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 2:7 You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious.
Amos 3:14 "On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.