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:

²“I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth.

³Do two walk together,

⁴Will a lion roar in the thicket,

⁵Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth,

⁶Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city,

⁷Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing,

⁸The lion has roared.

⁹Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,

¹⁰“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh,

¹¹Therefore the Lord Yahweh says:

¹²Yahweh says:

¹³“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.

¹⁴“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him,

¹⁵I will strike the winter house with the summer house;