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3:1  Listen! This is your doom! It is spoken by the Lord against both Israel and Judah—against the entire family I brought from Egypt:
3:2  “Of all the peoples of the earth, I have chosen you alone. That is why I must punish you the more for all your sins.
3:3  For how can we walk together with your sins between us?
3:4  “Would I be roaring as a lion unless I had a reason? The fact is, I am getting ready to destroy you. Even a young lion, when it growls, shows it is ready for its food.
3:5  A trap doesn’t snap shut unless it is stepped on; your punishment is well deserved.
3:6  The alarm has sounded—listen and fear! For I, the Lord, am sending disaster into your land.
3:7  “But always, first of all, I warn you through my prophets. This I now have done.”
3:8  The Lion has roared—tremble in fear. The Lord God has sounded your doom—I dare not refuse to proclaim it.
3:9  “Call together the Assyrian and Egyptian leaders, saying, ‘Take your seats now on the mountains of Samaria to witness the scandalous spectacle of all Israel’s crimes.’
3:10  My people have forgotten what it means to do right,” says the Lord. “Their beautiful homes are full of the loot from their thefts and banditry.
3:11  Therefore,” the Lord God says, “an enemy is coming! He is surrounding them and will shatter their forts and plunder those beautiful homes.”
3:12  The Lord says, “A shepherd tried to rescue his sheep from a lion, but it was too late; he snatched from the lion’s mouth two legs and a piece of ear. So it will be when the Israelites in Samaria are finally rescued—all they will have left is half a chair and a tattered pillow.
3:13  “Listen to this announcement and publish it throughout all Israel,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty:
3:14  “On the same day that I punish Israel for her sins I will also destroy the idol altars at Bethel. The horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.
3:15  “And I will destroy the beautiful homes of the wealthy—their winter mansions and their summer houses too—and demolish their ivory palaces.”