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title="Amos 2">◄</a> Amos 3 <a href="../amos/4.htm" title="Amos 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/amos/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Israel’s Guilt and Punishment</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Hear this word that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“You only have I known</span><br /><span class="indent">of all the families of the earth;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">therefore I will punish you</span><br /><span class="indent">for all your iniquities.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Do two walk together,</span><br /><span class="indent">unless they have agreed to meet?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Does a lion roar in the forest,</span><br /><span class="indent">when he has no prey?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Does a young lion cry out from his den,</span><br /><span class="indent">if he has taken nothing?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent">when there is no trap for it?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Does a snare spring up from the ground,</span><br /><span class="indent">when it has taken nothing?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Is a trumpet blown in a city,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the people are not afraid?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Does disaster come to a city,</span><br /><span class="indent">unless the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has done it?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“For the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> does nothing</span><br /><span class="indent">without revealing his secret</span><br /><span class="indent">to his servants the prophets.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The lion has roared;</span><br /><span class="indent">who will not fear?</span><br /><span class="ln-group">The Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> has spoken;</span><br /><span class="indent">who can but prophesy?”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Proclaim to the strongholds in Ashdod</span><br /><span class="indent">and to the strongholds in the land of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria,</span><br /><span class="indent">and see the great tumults within her,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the oppressed in her midst.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“They do not know how to do right,” declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">“those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”</span></p> <p class="same-paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Therefore thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“An adversary shall surround the land</span><br /><span class="indent">and bring down<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew An adversary, one who surrounds the land--he shall bring down">a</a></sup></span> your defenses from you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your strongholds shall be plundered.”</span></p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: “As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain">b</a></sup></span> of a bed.</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob,”</span><br /><span class="indent">declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, the God of hosts,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“that on the day I punish Israel for his transgressions,</span><br /><span class="indent">I will punish the altars of Bethel,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and the horns of the altar shall be cut off</span><br /><span class="indent">and fall to the ground.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will strike the winter house along with the summer house,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the houses of ivory shall perish,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and the great houses<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or and many houses">c</a></sup></span> shall come to an end,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">An adversary</span>, one who surrounds the land--he shall bring down</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">and</span> many houses</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br 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