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Does a bird fall into a trap on the ground when there is no [a]bait in it?
Does a trap spring up from the earth when it captures nothing at all?
If a (A)trumpet is blown in a city will not the people tremble?
If a (B)calamity happens in a city has not Yahweh done it?
[b]Surely Lord Yahweh does nothing
Unless He (C)reveals His secret counsel
To His slaves the prophets.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:5 Or striker-bar set
  2. Amos 3:7 Or For

Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground
    when no bait(A) is there?
Does a trap spring up from the ground
    if it has not caught anything?
When a trumpet(B) sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster(C) comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?(D)

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

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