13 "Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob," declares the Lord, the Lord God Almighty.
13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
13 "Hear, and testify against the house of Jacob," declares the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
13 "Listen and bring witness against Jacob's family" - this is God's Word, God-of-the-Angel-Armies!
13 Hear and testify against the house of Jacob," Says the Lord God, the God of hosts,
13 "Now listen to this, and announce it throughout all Israel, " says the Lord, the Lord God of Heaven's Armies.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Amos 3:13
Commentary on Amos 3:9-15
(Read Amos 3:9-15)
That power which is an instrument of unrighteousness, will justly be brought down and broken. What is got and kept wrongfully, will not be kept long. Some are at ease, but there will come a day of visitation, and in that day, all they are proud of, and put confidence in, shall fail them. God will inquire into the sins of which they have been guilty in their houses, the robbery they have stored up, and the luxury in which they lived. The pomp and pleasantness of men's houses, do not fortify against God's judgments, but make sufferings the more grievous and vexatious. Yet a remnant, according to the election of grace, will be secured by our great and good Shepherd, as from the jaws of destruction, in the worst times.