OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

Amos 3:12

The LORD says:

“As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs,

or a piece of an ear,

so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch,

and on the silken cushions of a bed.”

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Amos 3:12 in context

Amos 3:9–15

Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,

and in the palaces in the land of Egypt,

and say, “Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria,

and see what unrest is in her,

and what oppression is among them.”

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD,

“Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Therefore the Lord GOD says:

“An adversary will overrun the land;

and he will pull down your strongholds,

and your fortresses will be plundered.”

Selected verse

The LORD says:

“As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs,

or a piece of an ear,

so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch,

and on the silken cushions of a bed.”

“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord GOD, the God of Armies.

“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him,

I will also visit the altars of Bethel;

and the horns of the altar will be cut off,

and fall to the ground.

I will strike the winter house with the summer house;

and the houses of ivory will perish,

and the great houses will have an end,”

says the LORD.

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