Amos 3:7-15 ▼

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.|

11 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: |An enemy will surround the land. He will pull down your defenses, and plunder your fortified citadels.|

12 This is what the LORD says: |Just as a shepherd might save from the lion's mouth only two leg bones or a scrap of an ear, the Israelis will be saved in a similar manner— those in Samaria who sit on the remains of their broken beds, and those in Damascus who lie on the edge of their couches.|

13 |Listen and testify against the house of Jacob,| declares the Lord GOD, the God of the Heavenly Armies,

14 |because on that day I will lay out the charges against Israel. I will also bring judgment upon the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and will fall to the ground.

15 I will wreck both the winter house and the summer house, and the ivory houses will fall. These palaces will surely fall,| declares the LORD.