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title: "Amos 3 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate · Bless"
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description: "The evils that shall fall upon Israel for their sins. Amos 3 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Amos 3

Amos 3 is chapter 3 of 9 in the Book of Amos. Here are all 15 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The evils that shall fall upon Israel for their sins.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Amos 3 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Listen to the word which the Lord has spoken about you, sons of Israel, concerning the whole family that I led out of the land of Egypt, saying:
2. I have known only you in such a way, out of all the families of the earth. For this reason, I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
3. Will two walk together, unless they have agreed to do so?
4. Will a lion roar in the forest, unless he has prey? Will the lion’s young cry out from his den, unless he has taken something?
5. Will a bird fall into a snare on the ground, if there is no bird-catcher? Will a snare be taken away from the ground, before it has caught something?
6. Will the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not become frightened? Will there be disaster in a city, which the Lord has not done?
7. For the Lord God does not fulfill his word, unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets.
8. The lion will roar, who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken, who will not prophesy?
9. Let it be heard in the buildings of Ashdod and in the buildings of the land of Egypt, and say: Gather together across the mountains of Samaria, and see the many absurdities in its midst, and those who are suffering false accusations in its inner most places.
10. And they do not know how to make it right, says the Lord, storing up iniquity and plunder in their buildings.
11. Because of these things, thus says the Lord God: The land will be encircled and squeezed together. And your strength will be drawn away from you, and your buildings will be torn apart.
12. Thus says the Lord: Just as if a shepherd had rescued two legs from the mouth of a lion, or the tip of an ear, so also will the sons of Israel be rescued, who dwell in the sick bed of Samaria, and in the cot of Damascus.
13. Listen and give testimony in the house of Jacob, says the Lord God of hosts:
14. that in the day, when I will begin to visit the betrayals of Israel, I will visit upon him and upon the altars of Bethel. And the horns of the altars will be cut off and will fall to the ground.
15. And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and many buildings will be torn apart, says the Lord.

## Amos 3 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Audite verbum quod locutus est Dominus super vos, filii Israël, super omnem cognationem quam eduxi de terra Ægypti, dicens:
2. Tantummodo vos cognovi ex omnibus cognationibus terræ; idcirco visitabo super vos omnes iniquitates vestras.
3. Numquid ambulabunt duo pariter, nisi convenerit eis?
4. numquid rugiet leo in saltu, nisi habuerit prædam? numquid dabit catulus leonis vocem de cubili suo, nisi aliquid apprehenderit?
5. numquid cadet avis in laqueum terræ absque aucupe? numquid auferetur laqueus de terra antequam quid ceperit?
6. si clanget tuba in civitate, et populus non expavescet? si erit malum in civitate, quod Dominus non fecerit?
7. Quia non facit Dominus Deus verbum, nisi revelaverit secretum suum ad servos suos prophetas.
8. Leo rugiet, quis non timebit? Dominus Deus locutus est, quis non prophetabit?
9. Auditum facite in ædibus Azoti, et in ædibus terræ Ægypti, et dicite: Congregamini super montes Samariæ, et videte insanias multas in medio ejus, et calumniam patientes in penetralibus ejus.
10. Et nescierunt facere rectum, dicit Dominus, thesaurizantes iniquitatem et rapinas in ædibus suis.
11. Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Tribulabitur et circuietur terra: et detrahetur ex te fortitudo tua, et diripientur ædes tuæ.
12. Hæc dicit Dominus: Quomodo si eruat pastor de ore leonis duo crura, aut extremum auriculæ, sic eruentur filii Israël, qui habitant in Samaria in plaga lectuli, et in Damasci grabato.
13. Audite, et contestamini in domo Jacob, dicit Dominus Deus exercituum;
14. quia in die cum visitare cœpero prævaricationes Israël, super eum visitabo, et super altaria Bethel; et amputabuntur cornua altaris, et cadent in terram.
15. Et percutiam domum hiemalem cum domo æstiva, et peribunt domus eburneæ, et dissipabuntur ædes multæ, dicit Dominus.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 2: “Visit upon” … That is, punish.
- Verse 6: He speaks of the evil of punishments of war, famine, pestilence, desolation, etc., but not of the evil of sin, of which God is not the author.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Jul 4, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Amos 3:1-8; 4:11-12

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).