Amos 3:10-12

Contemporary English Version

¹⁰The Lord has said
that they don't even know how
    to do right.
They have become rich
    from violence and robbery.
¹¹And so the Lord God has sworn
    that they will be surrounded.
Enemies will break through
their defenses
    and steal their treasures.

¹²The Lord has promised
that only a few from Samaria
    will escape with their lives
and with some broken pieces
    of their beds and couches.^[a]
It will be like when a shepherd
    rescues two leg bones
and part of a sheep's ear
    from the jaws of a lion.^[b]

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Footnotes

3.12 some … couches: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
3.12 lion: When a wild animal attacked and killed a sheep, the shepherd had to rescue part of the sheep and take it to the owner as proof that it had been killed by an animal. Otherwise, the shepherd had to pay the owner the cost of the sheep.