### Douay Rheims Bible

Amos 2

## The Book of Amos

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| # Chapter 3
#### 1 | Hear the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O ye children of Israel: concerning the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:
#### 2 | You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.
#### 3 | Shall two walk together except they be agreed?
#### 4 | Will a lion roar in the forest, if he have no prey? will the lion's whelp cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing ?
#### 5 | Will the bird fall into the snare upon the earth, if there be no fowler? Shall the snare be taken up from the earth, before it hath taken somewhat ?
#### 6 | Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done?
#### 7 | For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.
#### 8 | The lion shall roar, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who shall not prophesy?
#### 9 | Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and them that suffer oppression in the inner rooms thereof.
#### 10 | And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.
#### 11 | Therefore thus saith the Lord God: The land shall be in tribulation, and shall be compassed about: and thy strength shall be taken away from thee, and thy houses shall be spoiled.
#### 12 | Thus saith the Lord: As if a shepherd should get out of the lion's mouth two legs, or the tip of the ear: so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria, in a piece of a bed, and in the couch of Damascus.
#### 13 | Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord the God of hosts:
#### 14 | That in the day when I shall begin to visit the transgressions of Israel, I will visit upon him, and upon the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altars shall be cut off, and shall fall to the ground.
#### 15 | And I will strike the winter house with the summer house: and the houses of ivory shall perish, and many houses shall be destroyed, saith the Lord.

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