Amos 3

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¹Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying: ✦ ²“Youonly have I known of all the families of the earth; Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.” ✦ ³Can two walk together, unless they are agreed? ✦ ⁴Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing? ✦ ⁵Will a bird fall into a snare on the earth, where there is no trap for it? Will a snare spring up from the earth, if it has caught nothing at all? ✦ ⁶If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid? If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it? ✦ ⁷Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. ✦ ⁸A 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 on the mountains of Samaria; See great tumults in her midst, And the oppressed within her. ✦ ¹⁰For they do not know to do right,’ Says the Lord, ‘Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.’ ” ✦ ¹¹Therefore thus says the Lord God: “An adversary shall be all around the land; He shall sap your strength from you, And your palaces shall be plundered.” ✦ ¹²Thus says the Lord: “As a shepherd takes from the mouth of a lion Two legs or a piece of an ear, So shall the children of Israel be taken out Who dwell in Samaria— In the corner of a bed and on the edge of a couch! ✦ ¹³Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,” Says the Lord God, the God of hosts, ✦ ¹⁴“That in the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will also visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; And the horns of the altar shall be cut off And fall to the ground. ✦ ¹⁵I will destroy the winter house along with the summer house; The houses of ivory shall perish, And the great houses shall have an end,” Says 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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