Amos 3
1 Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
audite verbum quod locutus est Dominus super vos filii Israhel super omni cognatione quam eduxi de terra Aegypti dicens
2 “I have chosen only you from all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”
tantummodo vos cognovi ex omnibus cognationibus terrae idcirco visitabo super vos omnes iniquitates vestras
3 Will two walk together unless they have agreed?
numquid ambulabunt duo pariter nisi convenerit eis
4 Will a lion roar in the forest when he has no victim? Will a young lion growl from his den if he has caught nothing?
numquid rugiet leo in saltu nisi habuerit praedam numquid dabit catulus leonis vocem de cubili suo nisi aliquid adprehenderit
5 Can a bird fall in a trap on the ground when no bait is set for him? Will a trap spring up from the ground when it has not caught anything?
numquid cadet avis in laqueum terrae absque aucupe numquid auferetur laqueus de terra antequam quid ceperit
6 If a trumpet sounds in a city, will the people not tremble? If disaster overtakes a city, has Yahweh not sent it?
si clanget tuba in civitate et populus non expavescet si erit malum in civitate quod Dominus non fecit
7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing unless he reveals his plan to his servants the prophets.
quia non faciet Dominus Deus verbum nisi revelaverit secretum suum ad servos suos prophetas
8 The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken; who will not prophesy?
leo rugiet quis non timebit Dominus Deus locutus est quis non prophetabit
9 Proclaim this in the fortresses at Ashdod, and in the fortresses in the land of Egypt; say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria and see what great confusion is in her, and what oppression is in her.
auditum facite in aedibus Azoti et in aedibus terrae Aegypti et dicite congregamini super montes Samariae et videte insanias multas in medio eius et calumniam patientes in penetrabilibus eius
10 For they do not know how to do right —this is Yahweh's declaration— They store up violence and destruction in their fortresses.”
et nescierunt facere rectum dicit Dominus thesaurizantes iniquitatem et rapinas in aedibus suis
11 Therefore, this is what the Lord Yahweh says: “An enemy will surround the land, and pull down your strongholds and plunder your fortresses.”
propterea haec dicit Dominus Deus tribulabitur et circumietur terra et detrahetur ex te fortitudo tua et diripientur aedes tuae
12 This is what Yahweh says: “As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs only, or a piece of an ear; so will the people of Israel who live in Samaria be rescued; they will be left with only the corner of a couch or a piece of a bed.”
haec dicit Dominus quomodo si eruat pastor de ore leonis duo crura aut extremum auriculae sic eruentur filii Israhel qui habitant in Samaria in plaga lectuli et in Damasco grabatti
13 Hear and testify against the house of Jacob —this is the declaration of the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts:
audite et contestamini in domo Iacob dicit Dominus Deus exercituum
14 “For in the day that I punish the sins of Israel, I will also punish the altars of Bethel. The horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.
quia in die cum visitare coepero praevaricationes Israhel super eum visitabo et super altaria Bethel et amputabuntur cornua altaris et cadent in terram
15 I will destroy the winter house with the summer house. The houses of ivory will perish, and the large houses will vanish, —this is Yahweh's declaration.”
et percutiam domum hiemalem cum domo aestiva et peribunt domus eburneae et dissipabuntur aedes multae dicit Dominus
