Amos 3:1-10 ▼

1 Heare this worde that the Lord pronounceth against you O children of Israel euen against the whole familie whiche I brought vp from the lande of Egypt, saying:

2 You only haue I knowen of al the families of the earth, therfore I will visite you for all your iniquities.

3 Can two walke together, except they be agreed?

4 Wyll a lion roare in the forest when he hath no pray? or wil a lions whelpe crye out of his denne, if he haue taken nothing?

5 Can a birde fal in a snare vpon the earth where no fouler is? or wil he take vp the snare from the earth, and haue taken nothing at all?

6 Or shall a trumpet be blowen in the citie, & the people be not afrayde? or shall there be euyll in a citie, and the Lorde hath not done it?

7 Surely the Lord God wil do nothing, but he reuealeth his secrete vnto his seruauntes the prophetes.

8 The lion hath roared, who wil not be afrayde? The Lorde God hath spoken, who can but prophecie?

9 Proclame in the palaces at Asdod, and in the palaces in the lande of Egypt, and say: Assemble your selues vpon the mountaynes of Samaria, and beholde the great tumultes in the mids thereof, and the oppressed in the mids therof:

10 For they know not to do right, sayth the Lorde, they store vp violence and robberie in their palaces.