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3 “You people of Israel, I brought all your ancestors out of Egypt;
so listen to what I am saying about you.
2 From all the people groups on the earth,
I chose and took care of only you.
That is the reason that I will punish you
for the sins that you have committed.”
3 Two people certainly cannot walk together
if they have not already agreed what place they will start walking from.
4 A lion in a forest certainly does not roar
if it has not killed another animal.
It does not growl in its den
if it is not eating the flesh of an animal that it has caught.
5 No one can catch a bird
if he does not set a trap for it.
A trap does not spring shut
when some animal has not sprung the trap.
6 Similarly, all the people in a city certainly become afraid
when they hear someone blowing a horn
to signal that enemies are attacking.
And when a city experiences disaster,
Yahweh is the one who has caused it.
7 For Yahweh the Lord does nothing without first disclosing his secret plans to the prophets, his servants. 8 Everyone certainly becomes terrified when they hear a lion roar;
Yahweh the Lord has given messages to his prophets,
and that is why I am proclaiming his message to you,
even though it may terrify you.
9 Proclaim to the people in the strongholds in Ashdod,
and to the people in the fortresses in the land of Egypt say this:
“Come together on the hills of Samaria,
and see how much the people in that city are frightened,
and see the way the people are suffering because of what they are doing to each other!”
10 The people there do not know how to do things that are right. They have filled their fortresses with valuable things they stole or took violently from others.” Yahweh has declared this.
11 Therefore Yahweh our Lord has declared this: "Doom is coming! Soon their enemies will come into their land
and tear down their defenses
and take away those valuable things.
12 Yahweh has declared this:
“When a lion attacks a sheep,
sometimes a shepherd is able to snatch from the lion’s mouth
only two legs or an ear of the sheep.
Similarly, only a few people from Samaria will escape,
just as if someone could save only a part of a couch or a bed from a fire in the house.”
13 Yahweh our Lord, the commander of the angel armies, has decalred this:
“Proclaim this message about the descendants of Jacob:
14 For on the day of judgment when I punish the people of Israel
because of the sins that they have committed,
I will destroy the altars at the town of Bethel;
even the projections at the corners of the altars will break and fall to the ground.
15 I will cause the houses that they live in during the winter to be torn down;
and the houses they live in during the summer, they will also be torn down.
Beautiful big houses and houses that are decorated with ivory will be destroyed.”
Yahweh has declared this, so it will certainly happen!