'Amos (Amo) 3
3
1“Listen to this word which Adonai has spoken against you, people of Isra’el, against the entire family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:
2“Of all the families on earth,
only you have I intimately known.
This is why I will punish you
for all your crimes.”
3Do two people travel together
without having so agreed?
4Does a lion roar in the forest
when it has no prey?
Does a young lion growl in his lair
if it has caught nothing?
5Does a bird get caught in a trap on the ground
if it hasn’t been baited?
Does a trap spring up from the ground
when it has taken nothing?
6When the shofar is blown in the city,
don’t the people tremble?
Can disaster befall a city
without Adonai’s having done it?
7Adonai, God, does nothing without
revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
8The lion has roared. Who will not fear?
Adonai, God, has spoken. Who will not prophesy?
9“Proclaim it on the palaces in Ashdod
and on the palaces in the land of Egypt; say:
‘Assemble yourselves on the hills of Shomron!
See what great tumult is seething within it,
how much oppression is being done there.’
10For they don’t know how to do right,” says Adonai.
“They store up violence and robbery in their palaces.”
11Therefore, here is what Adonai Elohim says:
“An enemy will surround the land.
He will strip you of your strength,
and plunder your palaces.”
12This is what Adonai says:
13“As a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion
a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear;
so the people of Isra’el in Shomron will be rescued,
huddled under cushions in the corners of their beds.
“Hear, and testify against the house of Ya‘akov,”
says Adonai Elohim Elohei-Tzva’ot.
14“For when I punish Isra’el’s crimes,
I will also punish the altars of Beit-El.
The horns of the altar will be cut off,
and they will fall to the ground.
15I will tear down winter houses
as well as summer houses;
houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed;
the mansions will be no more,” says Adonai.
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