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:
Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
unless they have agreed?
when he has no prey?
Does a young lion cry out of his den,
if he has caught nothing?
where no snare is set for him?
Does a snare spring up from the ground,
when there is nothing to catch?
without the people being afraid?
Does evil happen to a city,
and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
Who will not fear?
The Lord Yahweh has spoken.
Who can but prophesy?
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.”
“Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
11Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:
and he will pull down your strongholds,
and your fortresses will be plundered.”
12Yahweh says:
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.”
13“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.
I will also visit the altars of Bethel;
and the horns of the altar will be cut off,
and fall to the ground.
and the houses of ivory will perish,
and the great houses will have an end,”