1Hear 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: 2"You only have I chosen of all the families of the earth. 3Do two walk together, 4Will a lion roar in the thicket, 5Can a bird fall in a trap on the earth, 6Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, 7Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, 8The lion has roared. 9Proclaim in the palaces at Ashdod, 10"Indeed they do not know to do right," says the LORD, 11Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "An adversary will overrun the land; 12Thus says the LORD: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, 13"Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts. 14"For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, 15I will strike the winter house with the summer house;