The greater the privileges the greater the responsibilities
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📚Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family✭ which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,2 📚“You only✭ have I known✭ of
all the families of the earth,
therefore✭ I will punish you for all
your evil deeds.
3 📚✭Can two walk together,
unless they are in agreement?
God speaks through the prophet
4 📚✭Will a lion roar in the forest,
when he has no prey?
Will a young lion cry out of his den,
if he has caught nothing?
5 📚Can a bird fall in a snare
on the earth,
where there is no trap for it?
Will a trap spring up from the ground,
if it has caught nothing at all?
6 📚✭Will a trumpet be blown
in the city,
without the people being afraid?
Will there be a disaster in a city,
without the LORD causing it?
7 📚✭Surely the Lord God does nothing
without revealing his secret✭
to his servants the prophets.
8 📚The lion has roared! Who will not fear?
The Lord God has spoken!
Who can but prophesy✭?
The people of Israel, afflicting the poor and living in luxury, will in fact bring punishment
9 📚✭Make a proclamation in the palaces
at Ashdod, and in the palaces
in the land of Egypt, and say,
“Assemble on the mountains of Samaria,
and see the great tumults in her midst,
and the oppression within her”.
10 📚“For they do not know how
to do right”, says the LORD,
“who store up in their palaces
the gains of violence
and robbery”.
11 📚✭Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“There will be an enemy✭
surrounding the land,
and he will deprive you of your strength,
and your palaces will be plundered”.
12 📚✭Thus says the LORD:
“As a shepherd takes out of the mouth
of a lion two legs,
or a piece of an ear, so will the children
of Israel who live in Samaria be
taken out on the corner of a bed,
and to Damascus on a couch.
13 📚Listen and testify against
the house of Jacob”,
says the Lord God, the God of hosts,
14 📚“That in the day that I punish✭ Israel
for his transgressions,
I will also punish the altars of Bethel✭,
and the horns of the altar
will be cut off,
and fall to the ground.
15 📚✭And I will strike the winter house
with the summer house,
and the houses of ivory will perish,
and the great houses will come
to an end”, says the LORD.