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| 3:1 | Hear ye this word that Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O sons of Israel, concerning all the family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying: |
| 3:2 | Only you I have known of all families of the land, Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities. |
| 3:3 | Do two walk together if they have not met? |
| 3:4 | Roar doth a lion in a forest and prey he hath none? Give out doth a young lion his voice from his habitation, If he hath not caught? |
| 3:5 | Doth a bird fall into a snare of the earth, And there is no gin for it? Doth a snare go up from the ground, And prey it captureth not? |
| 3:6 | Is a trumpet blown in a city, And do people not tremble? Is there affliction in a city, And Jehovah hath not done `it'? |
| 3:7 | For the Lord Jehovah doth nothing, Except He hath revealed His counsel unto His servants the prophets. |
| 3:8 | A lion hath roared -- who doth not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken -- who doth not prophesy? |
| 3:9 | Sound ye unto palaces in Ashdod, And to palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Be ye gathered on mountains of Samaria, And see many troubles within her, And oppressed ones in her midst. |
| 3:10 | And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces. |
| 3:11 | Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: An adversary -- and surrounding the land, And he hath brought down from thee thy strength, And spoiled have been thy palaces. |
| 3:12 | Thus said Jehovah: As the shepherd delivereth from the lion's mouth Two legs, or a piece of an ear, So delivered are the sons of Israel, Who are sitting in Samaria on the corner of a bed, And in Damascus `on that of' a couch. |
| 3:13 | Hear ye and testify to the house of Jacob, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, God of Hosts. |
| 3:14 | For in the day of My charging the transgressions of Israel on him, I have laid a charge on the altars of Beth-El, And cut off have been the horns of the altar, And they have fallen to the earth. |
| 3:15 | And I have smitten the winter-house with the summer-house, And perished have houses of ivory, And consumed have been many houses, An affirmation of Jehovah! |
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| 3:1 | Heare, what the LORDE speaketh vnto you (o ye children of Israel) namely, vnto all ye trybes, who I brought out of Egipte, and sayde: |
| 3:2 | You only haue I accepted from all the generacions off the earth: therfore will I vyset you in all youre wickednesses. |
| 3:3 | Maye twaine walke together excepte they be agreed amonge them selues? |
| 3:4 | Doth a lyon roare in the wodde, excepte he haue a pray? Or crieth a lyons whelpe out of his denne, excepte he haue gotten somthige? |
| 3:5 | Doth a byrde fall in a snare vpo ye earth where no fouler is? Taketh a man his snare vp from the grounde, afore he catche somwhat? |
| 3:6 | Crie they out Alarum with the trompet in the cite, and the people not afrayed? Commeth there eny plage in a cite, without it be the LORDES doinge? |
| 3:7 | Now doth the LORDE God no maner of thinge, but he telleth his secrete before vnto his seruauntes ye prophetes. |
| 3:8 | When a lyon roareth, who will not be afrayed? Seynge then that the LORDE God himself speaketh, who will not prophecy? |
| 3:9 | Preach in the palaces at Asdod, and in the palaces off the londe off Egipte, and saye: gather you together vpon the moutaynes off Samaria, so shall ye se greate murthur and violent oppression amonge them: for why, they regarde not the thinge that is right, |
| 3:10 | sayeth the LORDE: they gather together euell gotten goodes, and laye vp robbery in their houses. |
| 3:11 | Therfore, thus sayeth the LORDE God: This londe shalbe troubled and beseged roude aboute, thy strength shalbe plucte from the, and thy palaces robbed. |
| 3:12 | Thus saieth the LORDE: like as an hyrdeman taketh two legges or a pece off an eare out off the Lyons mouth: Euen so the children of Israel (that dwell in Samaria, hauynge their couches in the corner, and their beddes at Damascus) shalbe plucte awaye. |
| 3:13 | Heare, and beare recorde in the house of Iacob (sayeth the LORDE God of hoostes) |
| 3:14 | that when I begynne to vyset the wickednesse of Israel, I will vyset ye aulters at Bethel also: so that the hornes of the aulter shalbe broken of, & fall to the groude. |
| 3:15 | As for the wynter house and sommer house, I will smyte them downe: and the houses of yuery, yee and many other houses shal perish, and be destroyed, sayeth the LORDE. |
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