3:1 Hear this word that Jehovah hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,
3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
3:3 Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?
3:4 Will a lionroar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lioncry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
3:5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is [set] for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?
3:6 Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evilbefall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?
3:9 Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tumults are therein, and what oppressions in the midst thereof.
3:10 For they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
3:11 Therefore thus saith the LordJehovah: An adversary [there shall be], even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall be plundered.
3:12 Thus saith Jehovah: As the shepherd rescueth out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.
