Amos 3:6

⁶If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid? If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?c

Amos 3 opens with a stunning reversal: Israel, the people God chose and rescued from Egypt, is now the people God will punish. The prophet declares that divine judgment is not random but flows from God's intimate covenant relationship with his people. Using a series of rhetorical qu