Moff by section AMOS 3:1

Amos 3

3 Listen to this charge of the Eternal against you, sons of Israel, against the whole race that I brought up from the land of Egypt:

2 You alone, of all men, have I cared for;

therefore I will punish you for all your misdeeds.

3 Do two men travel together, unless they have planned it?

4 Does a lion in the jungle roar, unless he has some prey?

Does a young lion growl in his lair, unless he has made a capture?

5 Does a bird drop into the trap, unless the trap is baited?

Does the trap spring up, unless there is something to catch?

6 Do not townsfolk tremble, when the alarum is blown?

Can trouble befall a town, unless the Eternal is at work?

7 The Lord Eternal never does anything

without telling his servants the prophets.

8 When the lion roars, who does not shudder?

When the Lord Eternal speaks, who can but prophesy?

9 Proclaim this in the palaces of Assyria

and in the palaces of Egypt’s land:

“Muster on Samaria’s hills,

look at the rife disorders there,

at all the oppression in their midst;

10 they know not how to deal justly,

they plenish their palaces by violence and robbery.”

11 Therefore, the Lord Eternal declares,

the Foe shall overrun the land,

laying your forts level,

plundering your palaces.

The Eternal declares:

As a shepherd snatches from a lion’s mouth

no more than two bones or a rag of an ear,

so scarcely shall the Israelites be rescued,

who loll on corners of diwans within Samaria,

on silken cushions of a couch.

15 I strike down winter-house and summer-house together,

and ivoried houses perish–

aye, many a house is swept away:

by order of the Eternal.

13 Listen and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord Eternal, the God of hosts, 14 that when I punish Israel for his iniquities,

I will punish the Bethel altars on that day,

till the knobs of the altar are cut away

and drop to the ground.