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What does Amos 3:13 mean?
"“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies."
— Amos 3:13 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered.”
Yahweh 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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.
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