1 Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying: 2 “You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. 3 Do two walk together, 4 Will a lion roar in the thicket, 5 Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, 6 Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, 7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, 8 The lion has roared. 9 Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, 10 “Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh,
11 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
12 Thus says Yahweh:
13 “Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord Yahweh, the God of Armies. 14 “For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, 15 I will strike the winter house with the summer house;