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Amos

Chapter 03
1-2`` 'Hear, listen and obey' {shama`}
his word/'doctrinal communication' {dabar}
that Jehovah/God has spoken concerning you,
O children of Israel,
concerning the whole family
that I {God} brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 2``
"You alone have I singled out
of all the families of the earth
that is why I will call you to account for all your iniquities.

3`` Can two walk together, without having met?

4``Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey?

Does a great beast let out a cry from its den
without having made a capture?

5``Does a bird drop on the ground - in a trap -
with no snare there?

Does a trap spring up from the ground
unless it has caught something?

6`` When a ram's horn/trumpet is sounded in a town,
do the people not take alarm?

Can misfortune come to a town
if Jehovah/God has not done/
manufactured it {`asah - from their evil}?

7``Indeed, the Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God will do nothing,
without having revealed His purpose
to His servants the prophets.

8`` A lion has roared, who can but fear?

The Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God has spoken, who can but prophesy?

9``Proclaim in the fortresses of Ashdod,
and in the fortresses of the land of Egypt, and say,
"Gather on the hill of Samaria,
and witness the great outrages within her
and the oppression in her midst.

10`` They are incapable of doing right," said Jehovah/God.

They store up lawlessness and rapine in their fortresses.

11``Assuredly, thus said the Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God,
"An enemy, all about the land!

He shall strip you of your splendor,
and your fortresses shall be plundered."

12`` Thus said Jehovah/God,
"As a shepherd rescues from the lion's jaws
two shank bones or the tip of an ear,
so shall the Israelites escape
who dwell in Samaria -
with the leg of a bed or the head of a couch.

13`` 'Hear, listen and obey' {shama`} {this},
and warn the house of Jacob,"
said the Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God
the 'Elohiym/Godhead of the armies/hosts.

14`` "That when I punish Israel for its transgressions
I will wreak judgment on the altars of Bethel
and the horns of {each} altar shall be cut off,
and shall fall to the ground.

15``I will wreck the winter palace
together with the summer palace;
the ivory palaces shall be demolished,
and the great houses shall be destroyed," said Jehovah/God.