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  • Individual translator
  • OT: Septuagint (Greek)
  • Septuagint Old Testament (no New Testament)
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1844
  • Public domain

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Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 Hear ye this word, O house of Israel, which the Lord has spoken concerning you, and against the whole family whom I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,
1 Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
2 You especially have I known out of all the families of the earth: therefore will I take vengeance upon you for all your sins.
2 “I have chosen only you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
3 Shall two walk together at all, if they do not know one another?
3 Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?
4 Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a [lion's] whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?
4 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?
5 Will a bird fall on the earth without a fowler? will a snare be taken up from the earth without having taken anything?
5 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?
6 Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?
6 Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?
7 For the Lord God will do nothing, without revealing instruction to his servants the prophets.
7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
8 A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? the Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy?
8 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
9 Proclaim it to the regions among the Assyrians, and to the regions of Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves to the mountain of Samaria, and behold many wonderful things in the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it.
9 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.”
10 And she knew not what things would come against her, saith the Lord, [even] those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.
10 “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
11 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; O Tyre, thy land shall be made desolate round about [thee]; and he shall bring down thy strength out of thee, and thy countries shall be spoiled.
11 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”
12 Thus saith the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of [a foreign] tribe, and in Damascus.
12 Yahweh 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.”
13 Hear, O ye priests, and testify to the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God Almighty.
13 “Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.
14 For in the day wherein I shall take vengeance of the sins of Israel upon him, I will also take vengeance on the altars of Bæthel: and the horns of the altar shall be broken down, and they shall fall upon the ground.
14 “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.
15 I will crush and smite the turreted-house upon the summer-house; and the ivory-houses shall be destroyed, and many other houses also, saith the Lord.
15 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 Yahweh.
Cross references (15)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Amos 2:10; Micah 3:1; Jeremiah 8:3; Jeremiah 31:1; Hosea 4:1
  2. 2 Deuteronomy 7:6; Exodus 19:5–6; Deuteronomy 10:15; 1 Peter 4:17; Zechariah 14:17–18
  3. 3 2 Corinthians 6:14–16; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 5:22; Genesis 6:9
  4. 4 Hosea 11:10; Psalm 104:21; Amos 1:2; Hosea 5:14; Amos 3:8
  5. 5 Ecclesiastes 9:12; Jeremiah 31:28; Daniel 9:14
  6. 6 Isaiah 45:7; Zephaniah 1:16; Isaiah 14:24–27; 2 Corinthians 5:11; Genesis 50:20
  7. 7 John 15:15; Genesis 18:17; Psalm 25:14; Revelation 1:1; Daniel 9:22–27
  8. 8 Jeremiah 20:9; Amos 3:4; Acts 4:20; Amos 1:2; Amos 2:12
  9. 9 Amos 4:1; Amos 6:1; Amos 1:8; 1 Samuel 5:1; Amos 8:6
  10. 10 Zephaniah 1:9; Jeremiah 4:22; Psalm 14:4; Zechariah 5:3–4; Habakkuk 2:8–11
  11. 11 2 Kings 18:9–11; Amos 6:14; Amos 2:5; 2 Kings 17:3–6; 2 Kings 15:19
  12. 12 1 Samuel 17:34–37; Romans 11:4–5; Isaiah 31:4; Amos 9:2–3; 2 Kings 16:9
  13. 13 Ephesians 4:17; Acts 20:21; Isaiah 1:24; Amos 5:27; Acts 2:40
  14. 14 2 Kings 23:15; Hosea 10:5–8; Hosea 10:14–15; 2 Chronicles 34:6–7; Amos 5:5–6
  15. 15 1 Kings 22:39; Jeremiah 36:22; Amos 6:11; Judges 3:20; Isaiah 5:9

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 3:8 Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (Sermon V)

    But now at all events mark the beasts which are unquestionably of savage kind. "The lion roareth, who doth not fear?" And yet wherein is it that thou dost find thyself to be stronger than he?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 3:6 John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book IV, Chapters XIX–XX)

    Nay, even when He says that God creates evil things, and that there is no evil in a city that the Lord hath not done, he does not mean by these words that the Lord is the cause of evil, but the word evil ' is used in two ways, with two meanings.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)