Holy Scripture
Amos 3:8
A church father on this verse
“National calamity is traced to national sin, specially to neglect of the poor.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8A lion shall roar, and who will not be alarmed? the Lord God has spoken, and who will not prophesy?
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6Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?
7For the Lord God will do nothing, without revealing instruction to his servants the prophets.
— Amos 3:8 —
9Proclaim it to the regions among the Assyrians, and to the regions of Egypt, and say, Gather yourselves to the mountain of Samaria, and behold many wonderful things in the midst of it, and the oppression that is in it.
10And she knew not what things would come against her, saith the Lord, even those that store up wrong and misery in their countries.