If a (A)trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble?
If a (B)calamity occurs in a city has not the Lord done it?
[a]Surely the Lord [b]God does nothing
Unless He (C)reveals His secret counsel
To His servants the prophets.
A (D)lion has roared! Who will not fear?
The (E)Lord [c]God has spoken! (F)Who can but prophesy?

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:7 Or For
  2. Amos 3:7 Heb YHWH
  3. Amos 3:8 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch

When a trumpet(A) sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster(B) comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?(C)

Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing
    without revealing his plan(D)
    to his servants the prophets.(E)

The lion(F) has roared(G)
    who will not fear?
The Sovereign Lord has spoken—
    who can but prophesy?(H)

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