AMOS. Chapter 3

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CHAP. III.

1 The necessitie of Gods iudgement against Israel. 9 The publication of it, with the causes thereof.

¹Heare this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family, 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 punish you for all your iniquities.²

³Can two walke together, except they be agreed?

⁴Will a lyon roare in the forrest, when he hath no pray? will a young lyon cry out of his den, if he haue taken nothing?⁴

⁵Can a bird fall in a snare vpon the earth, where no ginne is for him? shall one take vp a snare from the earth, and haue taken nothing at all?

⁶Shall a trumpet be blowen in the citie, and the people not be afraid? shall there be euill in a citie, and the Lord hath not done it?⁶

⁷Surely the Lord God will doe nothing, but he reuealeth his secret vnto his seruants the Prophets.

⁸The lyon hath roared, Who will not feare? the Lord God hath spoken, Who can but prophecie?

⁹¶ Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say; Assemble your selues vpon the mountaines of Samaria: and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.⁹

¹⁰For they know not to doe right, saith the Lord; who store vp violence, and robberie in their palaces.¹⁰

¹¹Therefore thus saith the Lord God, An aduersarie there shall be euen round about the land: and he shal bring downe thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.

¹²Thus saith the Lord, As the shepheard 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 in a couch.¹²

¹³Heare yee and testifie in the house of Iacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hostes;

¹⁴That in the day that I shall visite the transgressions of Israel vpon him, I will also visite the altars of Bethel, and the hornes of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.¹⁴

¹⁵And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of yuorie shall perish, and the great houses shall haue an end, saith the Lord.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Amos Chapter 3

² Heb. visit vpon.
⁴ Heb. giue foorth his voyce.
⁶ Or, not runne together. , Or, and shall not the L. doe somewhat?
⁹ Or, oppressions.
¹⁰ Or, spoile.
¹² Heb. deliuereth. , Or, on the beds feete.
¹⁴ Or, punish Israel for.

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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