5 Can a bird fall in a pach ha'aretz (trap on the ground), when his snare is not set? Can a pach spring up from ha'aretz without making a capture?
6 Shall a shofar be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be disaster in a city, and Hashem hath not caused it?
7 Surely Adonoi Hashem will do nothing, but He revealeth His sod (secret) unto His avadim hanevi'im.
8 The aryeh hath roared, who will not fear? Adonoi Hashem hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
9 Publish in the fortresses at Ashdod, and in the fortresses in Eretz Mitzrayim, and say, Assemble yourselves upon harei Shomron, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppression in the midst thereof.
10 For they have no da'as to do right, saith Hashem, who store up chamas and shod in their fortresses.
11 Therefore thus saith Adonoi Hashem: An adversary shall surround the land; and he shall bring down thy strongholds from thee, and thy fortresses shall be plundered.