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3:1  Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:
3:2  You alone have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
3:3  Do two people walk together, if they have not agreed?
3:4  Does a lion roar in the forest, if it has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from its den, if it has not caught something?
3:5  Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground, if there was no snare for it? Does a trap spring up from the ground, if it has not caught something?
3:6  If the trumpet blasts in the city, are not the people frightened? If there is disaster against a city, is it not the Lord who has done it?
3:7  Surely the Lord God does nothing without revealing His purpose to His servants the prophets.
3:8  The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?
3:9  Proclaim to the fortresses in Ashdod, and the fortresses in the land of Egypt, and say: “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and see the great disorders within her, and the oppression in her midst.”
3:10  They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, storing up violence and destruction in their fortresses.
3:11  Therefore thus says the Lord God: An enemy will surround your land; he will tear down your defenses, and your fortresses will be plundered.
3:12  Thus says the Lord: As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion a pair of legs or a piece of an ear, so will the children of Israel be rescued, those who live in Samaria, with the corner of a bed or a piece of a couch.
3:13  Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of Hosts:
3:14  Surely on the day I punish the transgressions of Israel, I will also punish the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.
3:15  I will destroy the winter house as well as the summer house, and the houses of ivory will perish; the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.