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3:1  He reproveth the house of Israel of ingratitude. 11 For the which God will punish them. Hear this word that the Lord pronounceth against you, O children of Israel, even against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,
3:2  You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit you for all your iniquities.
3:3  Can two walk together except they be agreed?
3:4  Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? or will a lion’s whelp cry out of his den, if he hath taken nothing?
3:5  Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no fowler is? or will he take up the snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
3:6  Or shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people be not afraid? or shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
3:7  Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the Prophets.
3:8  The lion hath roared: who will not be afraid? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
3:9  Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria: so behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.
3:10  For they know not to do right, saith the Lord: they store up violence, and robbery in their palaces.
3:11  Therefore thus saith the Lord God, An adversary shall come even round about the country, and shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
3:12  Thus saith the Lord, As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear: so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed: and in Damascus, as in a couch.
3:13  Hear, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts.
3:14  Surely in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar shall be broken off, and fall to the ground.
3:15  And I will smite the winter house with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall be consumed, saith the Lord.