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Amos 3 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Witnesses Summoned Against Israel

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:1 - Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the LORD has spoken against you—against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:2 - “You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:3 - Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:4 - Does a lion roar in the thicket when it has no prey? Does it growl in its den when it has caught nothing?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:5 - Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground when no bait is there? Does a trap spring up from the ground if it has not caught anything?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:6 - When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:7 - Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:8 - The lion has roared— who will not fear? The Sovereign LORD has spoken— who can but prophesy?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:9 - Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod 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.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:10 - “They do not know how to do right,” declares the LORD, “who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:11 - Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: “An enemy will overrun your land, pull down your strongholds and plunder your fortresses.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:12 - This is what the LORD says: “As a shepherd rescues from the lion’s mouth only two leg bones or a piece of an ear, so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued, with only the head of a bed and a piece of fabric[fn] from a couch.[fn]”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:13 - “Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob,” declares the Lord, the LORD God Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:14 - “On the day I punish Israel for her sins, I will destroy the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:15 - I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed and the mansions will be demolished,”

declares the LORD.

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NIV Footnotes
The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
Or Israelites be rescued, / those who sit in Samaria / on the edge of their beds / and in Damascus on their couches.
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Amos Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

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