Daily Meditation
3 Can two walk
together, except they be agreed? Amos 3
Today’s Reading
Amos
Chapter 3
Hear this word that
the Lord hath spoken
1 Hear this word
that the Lord hath 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, except they be agreed? 4 Will a lion
roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den,
if he have taken nothing? 5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no
gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken
nothing at all? 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be
afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it? 7 Surely
the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the
prophets. 8 The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken,
who can but prophesy?
9 Publish 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 the great tumults in the
midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof. 10 For they know not to
do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces. 11
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; An adversary there shall be even round about
the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from thee, and thy palaces shall
be spoiled.
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 in a couch.
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