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3:1  “Listen to this word which Adonai has spoken against you, people of Isra’el, against the entire family that I brought up from the land of Egypt:
3:2  “Of all the families on earth, only you have I intimately known. This is why I will punish you for all your crimes.”
3:3  Do two people travel together without having so agreed?
3:4  Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his lair if it has caught nothing?
3:5  Does a bird get caught in a trap on the ground if it hasn’t been baited? Does a trap spring up from the ground when it has taken nothing?
3:6  When the shofar is blown in the city, don’t the people tremble? Can disaster befall a city without Adonai’s having done it?
3:7  Adonai, God, does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
3:8  The lion has roared. Who will not fear? Adonai, God, has spoken. Who will not prophesy?
3:9  “Proclaim it on the palaces in Ashdod and on the palaces in the land of Egypt; say: ‘Assemble yourselves on the hills of Shomron! See what great tumult is seething within it, how much oppression is being done there.’
3:10  For they don’t know how to do right,” says Adonai. “They store up violence and robbery in their palaces.”
3:11  Therefore, here is what Adonai Elohim says: “An enemy will surround the land. He will strip you of your strength, and plunder your palaces.”
3:12  This is what Adonai says:
3:13  “As a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear; so the people of Isra’el in Shomron will be rescued, huddled under cushions in the corners of their beds. “Hear, and testify against the house of Ya‘akov,” says Adonai Elohim Elohei-Tzva’ot.
3:14  “For when I punish Isra’el’s crimes, I will also punish the altars of Beit-El. The horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.
3:15  I will tear down winter houses as well as summer houses; houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed; the mansions will be no more,” says Adonai.