Amos 3

1Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:Cross-references: 2Chr 20:15 · Isa 46:3 · Isa 48:12 · Jer 8:3 · Jer 31:1 · Jer 33:24 · +6 more

2“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”Cross-references: Gen 10:32 · Ex 19:5 · Deut 7:6 · Deut 10:15 · Deut 26:18 · Deut 32:9 · +21 more

3Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?Cross-references: Gen 5:22 · Gen 6:9 · Gen 17:1 · 2Cor 6:14

4Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?Cross-references: Ps 104:21 · Hos 5:14 · Hos 11:10 · Amos 1:2 · Amos 3:8

5Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?Cross-references: Eccl 9:12 · Jer 31:28 · Dan 9:14

6Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?Cross-references: Gen 50:20 · Isa 14:24 · Isa 45:7 · Jer 4:5 · Jer 5:22 · Jer 6:1 · +7 more

7Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.Cross-references: Gen 6:13 · Gen 18:17 · 1Ki 22:19 · 2Ki 3:17 · 2Ki 6:12 · 2Ki 22:13 · +11 more

8The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?Cross-references: Job 32:18 · Jer 20:9 · Amos 1:2 · Amos 2:12 · Amos 3:4 · Amos 7:12 · +7 more

9Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them.”Cross-references: Deut 29:24 · 1Sam 5:1 · 2Sam 1:20 · Jer 2:10 · Jer 22:8 · Jer 31:5 · +9 more

10“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”Cross-references: Ps 14:4 · Jer 4:22 · Jer 5:4 · Amos 5:7 · Amos 6:12 · Hab 2:8 · +4 more

11Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”Cross-references: 2Ki 15:19 · 2Ki 15:29 · 2Ki 17:3 · 2Ki 18:9 · 2Chr 36:19 · Isa 7:17 · +9 more

12Yahweh says: “As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.”Cross-references: 1Sam 17:34 · 1Ki 20:30 · 1Ki 20:34 · 1Ki 22:25 · 2Ki 16:9 · Isa 8:4 · +5 more

13“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.Cross-references: Deut 8:19 · Deut 30:18 · Josh 22:22 · 2Ki 17:13 · 2Ki 17:15 · 2Chr 24:19 · +8 more

14“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.Cross-references: Ex 32:34 · 1Ki 13:2 · 2Ki 23:15 · 2Chr 31:1 · 2Chr 34:6 · Hos 10:5 · +4 more

15I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Judg 3:20 · 1Ki 22:39 · Ps 45:8 · Isa 5:9 · Jer 36:22 · Amos 3:11 · +1 more