Amos 3:11

Therefore thus saith the Lord God ,.... Because of these tumults and riots, oppression and injustice, violence and robbery:

an adversary there shall be even round about the land : not Tyre, as Theodoret renders the word; but the king of Assyria, who invaded the land of Israel in the days of Hoshea, took Samaria, and carried Israel captive, and placed them in foreign countries, 2 Kings 17:6 ;

and he shall bring down thy strength from thee ; take away their riches, demolish their fortresses, and strip them of everything in which they put their confidence:

and thy palaces shall be spoiled ; plundered of the treasures laid up in them, and pulled down to the ground; and a just retaliation this for their being the repositories of ill gotten substance and wealth.