God’s Word
For Everyday Life

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:

“I have chosen only you of all the families of the earth.

Do two walk together,

Will a lion roar in the thicket,

Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth,

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city,

Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing,

The lion has roared.

Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod,

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says the LORD,

Therefore the Lord GOD says:

The LORD says:

“Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord GOD, the God of Armies.

“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him,

I will strike the winter house with the summer house;