Amos 2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ Yet I cast out the Amorrhite before their face: whose height was like the height of cedars, and who was strong as an oak: and I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots beneath.

² 0 It is I that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I led you forty years through the wilderness, that you might possess the land of the Amorrhite.

³ 1 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not so, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord?

⁴ 2 And you will present wine to the Nazarites: and command the prophets, saying: Prophesy not.

⁵ 3 Behold, I will screak under you as a wain screaketh that is laden with hay.

⁶ 4 And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.

⁷ 5 And he that holdeth the bow shall not stand, and the swift of foot shall not escape, neither shall the rider of the horse save his life.

⁸ 6 And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

⁹ Hear the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning you, O ye children of Israel: concerning the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying:

¹⁰ You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore will I visit upon you all your iniquities.

¹¹ Shall two walk together except they be agreed?

¹² Will a lion roar in the forest, if he have no prey? will the lion's whelp cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing ?

¹³ Will the bird fall into the snare upon the earth, if there be no fowler? Shall the snare be taken up from the earth, before it hath taken somewhat ?

¹⁴ Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done?

¹⁵ For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

¹⁶ The lion shall roar, who will not fear? The Lord God hath spoken, who shall not prophesy?