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Amos 3

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

Notes

2-a.
I have only chosen you to be mine among all other people, and yet you have forsaken me.
3-b.
Hereby the Prophet signifies that he speaks not of himself, but as God guided and moved him, which is called the agreement between God and his Prophets.
4-c.
Will God threaten by his Prophets, except there be some great occasion?
5-d.
Can any thing come without God’s providence?
5-e.
Shall his threatenings be in vain?
6-f.
Shall the Prophets threaten God’s judgements and the people not be afraid?
6-g.
Does any adversity come without God’s appointment? Is. 45.7.
7-h.
God deals not with the Israelites as he does with other people: for he ever warns them before of his plagues by his Prophets.
8-i.
Because the people ever murmured against the Prophets, he shows that God’s Spirit moved them so to speak as they did.
9-k.
He calls the strangers, as the Philistims and Egyptians to witnesses of God’s judgements against the Israelites for their cruelty & oppression.
10-l.
The fruit of their cruelty and theft appears by their great riches which they have in their houses.
12-m.
When the lion has saciate his hunger, the shepherd finds a leg or a tip of an ear to show that the sheep have been worried.
12-n.
Where they thought to have had a sure hold, and to have been in safety.