Amos chapter 3 Israel's guilt and punishment.

Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel,

against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt.

You only have I known of all the families of the earth.

Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Do two walk

together unless they have agreed to meet? Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey?

Does a young lion cry out from his den if he has taken nothing? Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth when there is no trap for it?

Does a snare spring up from the ground when it has

taken nothing? Is a trumpet blown in a city and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city

unless the Lord has done it? For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants,

the prophets. The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken.

Who can but prophesy? Proclaimed the strongholds in Ashted and to the strongholds in the land of

Egypt, and say, assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria and see the great tumults within

her and the oppressed in her midst. They do not know how to do right, declares the Lord,

those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God,

an adversary shall surround the land and bring down your defense from you,

and your strongholds shall be plundered.

Thus says the Lord,

as the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear,

so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued

with the corner of a couch and part of the bed.

...