Amos 3:1-10 ▼

1 |Listen to this message that the LORD has spoken about you, people of Israel. It concerns the entire family that I brought from the land of Egypt:

2 You alone have I known from among all of the families of mankind; therefore I will hold you accountable for all your iniquities.'|

3 |Will a couple walk in unity without having met?

4 Will a lion roar in the forest without having found its prey? Will a young lion cry from its den without having caught anything?

5 Does a bird fall into a snare on the ground without any bait in the trap? Will a trap snap shut when there is nothing to catch?

6 And when an alarm sounds in the city, the people will tremble, won't they? If there is trouble in a city, the LORD has brought it about, has he not?|

7 |Truly the Lord GOD will do nothing he has mentioned without revealing his purposes to his servants the prophets.

8 A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken! Who will not prophesy?

9 Announce this in the fortified citadels of Ashdod, and in the fortified citadels of the land of Egypt. Tell them, 'Gather together on the mountains of Samaria; look at the great misery among the citadels, along with the oppression within Egypt.'

10 Because they do not know how to act right,| declares the LORD, |they are filling their strongholds with treasures that they took from others by violence into their fortified citadels.|