Amos 3

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¹Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: ✦ ²“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.” ✦ ³Can two walk together without agreeing where to go? ✦ ⁴Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing? ✦ ⁵Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch? ✦ ⁶If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it? ✦ ⁷Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets. ✦ ⁸The lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy? ✦ ⁹Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.” ✦ ¹⁰“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.” ✦ ¹¹Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.” ✦ ¹²This is what the LORD says: “As the shepherd snatches from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites dwelling in Samaria will be rescued having just the corner of a bed or the cushion of a couch. ✦ ¹³Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts. ✦ ¹⁴On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground. ✦ ¹⁵I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Amos 6 ·6 Amos 3 ·5 Jer 31 ·4 2 Kgs 17 ·3 Hos 5 ·3 Amos 5 ·3 Amos 1 ·3 Dan 9 ·3

Christ at the center

Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.

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