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| 7:1 |
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king's mowings).
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| 7:2 |
When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
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| 7:3 |
The LORD relented concerning this; "It shall not be," said the LORD.
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| 7:4 |
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: the Lord GOD was calling for a shower of fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
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| 7:5 |
Then I said, "O Lord GOD, cease, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
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| 7:6 |
The LORD relented concerning this; "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD.
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| 7:7 |
This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
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| 7:8 |
And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass them by;
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| 7:9 |
the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."
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| 7:10 |
Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the very center of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.
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| 7:11 |
For thus Amos has said, 'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.'"
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| 7:12 |
And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, earn your bread there, and prophesy there;
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| 7:13 |
but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom."
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| 7:14 |
Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,
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| 7:15 |
and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
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| 7:16 |
"Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'
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| 7:17 |
Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.'"
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