God's New Revelations

The Prophet Amos

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- Chapter 3 -

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“You people of Israel, I brought all your ancestors out of Egypt; so listen to what I am saying about you.
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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.”
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Two people certainly cannot walk together if they have not already agreed what place they will start walking from.
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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.
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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.
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Similarly, all the people in a city certainly become afraid when they hear someone blowing a trumpet to signal that enemies are attacking. And when a city experiences disaster, Yahweh is the one who has caused it.
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Whatever Yahweh plans to do, he tells his prophets about it.
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Everyone certainly becomes terrified when they hear a lion roar; Yahweh the Lord has given messages to prophets, they certainly must proclaim those messages, even though they terrify people.
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Proclaim to the people who guard the strongholds in Ashdod, and to those who protect the fortresses in the land of Egypt, and 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!”
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Yahweh says that the people there do not know how to do things that are right. Their homes are filled with valuable things that they have stolen or taken violently from others.
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So Yahweh our God says that soon their enemies will come and tear down their defenses and take away those valuable things.
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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.”
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Yahweh, Commander of the angel armies, says this: “Proclaim this message about the descendants of Jacob:
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When I, Yahweh, punish the people of Israel because of the sins that they have committed, I will cause the altars at the town of Bethel to be destroyed; even the projections at the corners of the altars will be cut off and fall to the ground.
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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. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it!”
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Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
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I have only chosen you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
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Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?
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Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
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Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, where no snare is set for him? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when there is nothing to catch?
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Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and the LORD hasn’t done it?
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Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
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The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
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Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see what unrest is in her, and what oppression is among them.”
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Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD,Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
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Therefore the Lord GOD says:An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”
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The LORD says:As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.”
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Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord GOD, the God of Armies.
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For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.
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I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,” says the LORD.