Amos

¹ Hear this word the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:

² of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

³ unless they have agreed to do so?

⁴ when he has no prey? Does he growl in his den when he has caught nothing?

⁵ where no snare has been set? Does a trap spring up from the earth when there is nothing to catch?

⁶ do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it?

⁷ without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

⁸ who will not fear? The Sovereign Lord has spoken— who can but prophesy?

⁹ and to the fortresses of Egypt: “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest within her and the oppression among her people.”

¹⁰ “who hoard plunder and loot in their fortresses.”

¹¹ “An enemy will overrun the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your fortresses.”

¹² “As a shepherd saves from the lion’s mouth only two leg bones or a piece of an ear, so will the Israelites be saved, those who sit in Samaria on the edge of their beds and in Damascus on their couches.”

¹³ “Hear this and testify against the house of Jacob,” declares the Lord, the Lord God Almighty.

¹⁴ I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

¹⁵ along with the summer house; the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed and the mansions will be demolished,” declares the Lord.