Amos 3:2

²“From among all the families on the earth, I have been intimate with you alone. That is why I must punish you for all your sins.”a

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