12. This is what the lord says:“A shepherd who tries to rescue a sheep from a lion’s mouthwill recover only two legs or a piece of an ear.So it will be for the Israelites in Samaria lying on luxurious beds,and for the people of Damascus reclining on couches.
13. “Now listen to this, and announce it throughout all Israel,” says the Lord, the lord God of Heaven’s Armies.
14. “On the very day I punish Israel for its sins,I will destroy the pagan altars at Bethel.The horns of the altar will be cut offand fall to the ground.
15. And I will destroy the beautiful homes of the wealthy—their winter mansions and their summer houses, too—all their palaces filled with ivory,”says the lord.