Amos 3

Amos 3:2

You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

You only have I chosen out from all other nations for my peculiar people, and have bestowed much cost and care upon you: therefore, since you have abused my mercies and rebelled against me, ye shall be sure to be punished.

Amos 3:3

Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Ye did walk holily with me, and then I walked graciously with you; but now, since we are fallen out by reason of your great iniquities, it is not to be expected we should hold together any longer, in those fair correspondences which were between us.

Amos 3:4

Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he hath taken nothing?

Will the lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? or the young lion in his den, when he hath taken nothing? No more will the Lord denounce or inflict his fearful judgments upon a people, but where there is just matter of their sins, to be avenged.

Amos 3:5

Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

Ye are as the bird; God’s judgments are as the gin or snare: ye cannot fall into the snare or gin of my judgments, if your sins had not cast you thereinto: the snare is not wont to be taken up, if it have caught nothing; neither shall the judgments be removed, till they have effected that which they were sent for.

Amos 3:6

Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, to summon the inhabi-

Amos 3:8

The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

The Lord, like a dreadful and strong lion, hath roared out these menaces of judgments; who can choose but fear? The Lord hath committed his word of reproof and threatening to his prophets, who can then hold his peace, and forbear to publish it?

Amos 3:9

Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

Ye, O my prophets, publish this in the very palaces of the Philistines and of the Egyptians: and call to those heathenish nations, to be witnesses and judges of the heinous sins of my people: wish them to assemble themselves into the midst of Israel, and to take view of the great oppressions and tumultuous disorders that are amongst them.

Amos 3:10

Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Who store up in their houses those treasures, which they have gotten together by rapine and violence.

Amos 3:11

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; An adversary there shall be even round about the land; &c.

Therefore thus saith the Lord; A mighty adversary, even the Assyrian, shall come and invade thy land, and shall spoil and waste it round about.

Amos 3:12

Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corners of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

As the shepherd, when a lion hath been devouring amongst his flock, finds left some mangled remnants of a leg or an ear, which he carries home, to shew the spoil that hath been done by that fierce beast; so shall it be with Israel: of all the body of Samaria, there shall be some one or two left undevoured, for proof of that general slaughter and captivity; and those two perhaps sick and feeble persons which were not able to stir out of their beds or couches: and thus shall it be both with Samaria and Damascus.

Amos 3:14

That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el: and

the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground. In the day that I shall punish Israel, and call him to account for his many sins, I will reckon with him for his idolatries in Dan and Beth-el; and for those altars, which he hath erected there; and will cause those miserected altars to be beaten down to the ground.

Amos 3:15

And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

And the stately houses of their kings, both their warm winter houses, and their pleasant summer houses, and their curious and beautiful houses of ivory, shall be utterly demolished and perish.