AM-3:1  Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O

children of

Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the

land of Egypt,

saying,

AM-3:2  You only have I known of all the families of the earth:

therefore I

will punish you for all your iniquities.

AM-3:3  Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

AM-3:4  Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey?

will a young

lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

AM-3:5  Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin

[is] for him?

shall [one] take up a snare from the earth, and have taken

nothing at all?

AM-3:6  Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not

be afraid?

shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done [it]?

AM-3:7  Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth

his secret unto

his servants the prophets.

AM-3:8  The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD

hath spoken, who

can but prophesy?

AM-3:9  Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in

the land of

Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of

Samaria, and behold

the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the

midst

thereof.

AM-3:10  For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who

store up violence

and robbery in their palaces.

AM-3:11  Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary [there

shall be] even

round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from

thee, and thy

palaces shall be spoiled.

AM-3:12  Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the

mouth of the

lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of

Israel be taken

out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in

Damascus [in] a

couch.

AM-3:13  Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the

Lord GOD, the

God of hosts,

AM-3:14  That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions

of Israel upon

him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the

altar shall

be cut off, and fall to the ground.

AM-3:15  And I will smite the winter house with the summer house;

 and the

houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an

end, saith

the LORD.

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