1Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, sons of Israel, against the entire family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:2Only you have I known from all the families of the ground; therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.3Do two walk together unless they have met?4Will a lion roar in the forest when there is no torn prey for him? Will a lion's cub give his voice from his den unless he has captured?5Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no snare for it? Does a trap spring up from the ground and capture nothing?6If the ram's horn is blown in a city and the people do not tremble—if there is evil in a city and the LORD has not done it?7For the Lord GOD does nothing unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.8A lion has roared—who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken—who will not prophesy?9Proclaim over the palaces in Ashdod and over the palaces in the land of Egypt and say, "Assemble over the mountains of Shimron and see tumults of many in its midst and oppressions in its nearness."10And they do not know how to do rightness, declares the LORD, the treasurers of violence and breast in their palaces.11Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD: An adversary all around the land! He will bring down your strength from you, and your palaces will be plundered.12Thus says the LORD: As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so the sons of Israel will be delivered, the ones sitting in Samaria in a corner of a bed and in Damascus on a couch.13Hear and testify in the house of Jacob, says the Lord GOD of Hosts.14For on the day I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will visit the altars of Bethel, and the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the earth.15And I will strike the winter house upon the summer house, and the houses of ivory will perish, and many houses will come to an end—declares the LORD.