¹ Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying: ² “I have chosen only you of all the families of the earth. ³ Do two walk together, ⁴ Will a lion roar in the thicket,
Does a young lion cry out of his den,
if he has caught nothing? ⁵ Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, ⁶ Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, ⁷ Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, ⁸ The lion has roared. ⁹ Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, ¹⁰ “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD,
“Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.” ¹¹ Therefore the Lord GOD says:
“An adversary will overrun the land; ¹² The LORD says:
“As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, ¹³ “Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord GOD, the God of Armies. ¹⁴ “For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, ¹⁵ I will strike the winter house with the summer house;