# Amos 3 (New King James Version)
Authority of the Prophet's Message

##### Chapter 3
###### 1 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:

###### 2 "You only have I known of all the families of the earth;  
Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities."

###### 3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?  

###### 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey?  
Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?  

###### 5 Will a bird fall into a snare on the earth, where there is no trap for it?  
Will a snare spring up from the earth, if it has caught nothing at all?  

###### 6 If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?  
If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done _it?_

###### 7 Surely the Lord God does nothing,  
Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.  

###### 8 A lion has roared!  
Who will not fear?  
The Lord God has spoken!  
Who can but prophesy?Punishment of Israel's Sins

###### 9 "Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,  
And in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say:  
'Assemble on the mountains of Samaria;  
See great tumults in her midst,  
And the oppressed within her.  

###### 10 For they do not know to do right,'  
Says the Lord,  
'Who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.' "

###### 11 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
"An adversary _shall be_ all around the land;  
He shall sap your strength from you,  
And your palaces shall be plundered."

###### 12 Thus says the Lord:
"As a shepherd takes from the mouth of a lion  
Two legs or a piece of an ear,  
So shall the children of Israel be taken out  
Who dwell in Samaria--  
In the corner of a bed and on the edge of a couch!  

###### 13 Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,"  
Says the Lord God, the God of hosts,  

###### 14 "That in the day I punish Israel for their transgressions,  
I will also visit _destruction_ on the altars of Bethel;  
And the horns of the altar shall be cut off  
And fall to the ground.  

###### 15 I will destroy the winter house along with the summer house;  
The houses of ivory shall perish,  
And the great houses shall have an end,"  
Says the Lord.