Amos · Literal Standard Version
Amos 3 Literal Standard Version
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1 Hear this word that YHWH has spoken concerning you, O sons of Israel, concerning all the family that I brought up from 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 “Only you have I known of all families of the earth, || Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities.”
2 “I have chosen only you of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all of your sins.”
3 Do two walk together if they have not met?
3 Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?
4 Does a lion roar in a forest and he has no prey? Does a young lion give out his voice from his habitation, || If he has not caught?
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 Does a bird fall into a snare of the earth, || And there is no trap for it? Does a snare go up from the ground, || And it does not capture prey?
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 Is a horn blown in a city, || And do people not tremble? Is there affliction in a city, || And YHWH has not done [it]?
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 Lord YHWH does nothing, || Except He has revealed His counsel 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 has roared—who does not fear? Lord YHWH has spoken—who does not prophesy?
8 The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
9 “Sound to palaces in Ashdod, || And to palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Be gathered on mountains of Samaria, || And see many troubles within her, || And oppressed ones in her midst.
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 they have not known to act straightforwardly,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.”
10 “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
11 Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: “An adversary—and surrounding the land, || And he has brought down your strength from you, || And your palaces have been 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 said YHWH: “As the shepherd delivers from the lion’s mouth || Two legs, or a piece of an ear, || So the sons of Israel are delivered, || Who are sitting in Samaria on the corner of a bed, || And in Damascus [on that of] a couch.
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 and testify to the house of Jacob,” || A declaration of Lord YHWH, God of Hosts.
13 “Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies.
14 “For in the day of My charging the transgressions of Israel on him, I have laid a charge on the altars of Beth-El, || And the horns of the altar have been cut off, || And they have fallen to the earth.
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 And I have struck the winter-house with the summer-house, || And houses of ivory have perished, || And many houses have been consumed,” || A declaration of YHWH!
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 Amos 2:10; Micah 3:1; Jeremiah 8:3; Jeremiah 31:1; Hosea 4:1
- 2 Deuteronomy 7:6; Exodus 19:5–6; Deuteronomy 10:15; 1 Peter 4:17; Zechariah 14:17–18
- 3 2 Corinthians 6:14–16; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 5:22; Genesis 6:9
- 4 Hosea 11:10; Psalm 104:21; Amos 1:2; Hosea 5:14; Amos 3:8
- 5 Ecclesiastes 9:12; Jeremiah 31:28; Daniel 9:14
- 6 Isaiah 45:7; Zephaniah 1:16; Isaiah 14:24–27; 2 Corinthians 5:11; Genesis 50:20
- 7 John 15:15; Genesis 18:17; Psalm 25:14; Revelation 1:1; Daniel 9:22–27
- 8 Jeremiah 20:9; Amos 3:4; Acts 4:20; Amos 1:2; Amos 2:12
- 9 Amos 4:1; Amos 6:1; Amos 1:8; 1 Samuel 5:1; Amos 8:6
- 10 Zephaniah 1:9; Jeremiah 4:22; Psalm 14:4; Zechariah 5:3–4; Habakkuk 2:8–11
- 11 2 Kings 18:9–11; Amos 6:14; Amos 2:5; 2 Kings 17:3–6; 2 Kings 15:19
- 12 1 Samuel 17:34–37; Romans 11:4–5; Isaiah 31:4; Amos 9:2–3; 2 Kings 16:9
- 13 Ephesians 4:17; Acts 20:21; Isaiah 1:24; Amos 5:27; Acts 2:40
- 14 2 Kings 23:15; Hosea 10:5–8; Hosea 10:14–15; 2 Chronicles 34:6–7; Amos 5:5–6
- 15 1 Kings 22:39; Jeremiah 36:22; Amos 6:11; Judges 3:20; Isaiah 5:9
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“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).
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)
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)