Amos 3:7-15 ▼

7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

8 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

9 Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, |Assemble yourselves on the mountain of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them.|

10 |Indeed they do not know to do right,| says the LORD, |Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.|

11 Therefore thus says the LORD: |An adversary will surround the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.|

12 Thus says the LORD: |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 hosts.

14 |For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, 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; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,| says the LORD.