Amos 3

¹Heare this worde that the Lord pronounceth against you, O children of Israel, euen against the whole familie which I brought vp from the land of Egypt, saying,

²You onely haue I knowen of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visite you for all your iniquities.

³Can two walke together except they bee agreed?

⁴Will a lion roare in ye forest, when he hath no pray? or wil a lions whelpe cry out of his den, if he haue taken nothing?

⁵Can a birde fall in a snare vpon the earth, where no fouler is? or will he take vp the snare from the earth, and haue taken nothing at all?

⁶Or shall a trumpet be blowen in the citie, and the people be not afraide? or shall there be euil in a citie, and the Lord hath not done it?

⁷Surely the Lord God will doe nothing, but he reueileth his secrete vnto his seruantes the Prophets.

⁸The lyon hath roared: who will not bee afraide? the Lord God hath spoken: who can but prophecie?

⁹Proclayme in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the lande of Egypt, and saye, Assemble your selues vpon the mountaines of Samaria: so beholde the great tumultes in the middes thereof, and the oppressed in the middes thereof.

¹⁰For they knowe not to doe right, sayth the Lord: they store vp violence, and robbery in their palaces.

¹¹Therefore thus saith the Lord God, An aduersary shall come euen rounde about the countrey, and shall bring downe thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shalbe spoyled.

¹²Thus saieth the Lord, As the shephearde taketh out of the mouth of the lyon two legges, or a piece of an eare: so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus, as in a couche.