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“ Chapter 3 1 Hear this word that YHWH has spoken concerning you, O sons of Israel, concerning all the family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 2 "Only you have I known of all families of the earth, || Therefore I charge on you all your iniquities." 3 Do two walk together if they have not met? 4 Does a lion roar in a forest and he has no prey? Does a young lion give out his voice from his habitation, || If he has not caught? 5 Does a bird fall into a snare of the earth, || And there is no trap for it? Does a snare go up from the ground, || And it does not capture prey? ”

“ For three transgressions of Moab, || And for four, I do not reverse it, || Because of his burning the bones of the king of Edom to lime, 2 And I have sent a fire against Moab, || And it has consumed the palaces of Kerioth, || And Moab is dying with noise, || With shouting, with voice of a horn. ”

“ Is there affliction in a city, || And YHWH has not done [it] ? 7 For Lord YHWH does nothing, || Except He has revealed His counsel to His servants the prophets. 8 A lion has roared—who does not fear? Lord YHWH has spoken—who does not prophesy? 9 "Sound to palaces in Ashdod, || And to palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Be gathered on mountains of Samaria, || And see many troubles within her, || And oppressed ones in her midst. 10 And they have not known to act straightforwardly," || A declaration of YHWH, || "Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces." ”