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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The Lord GOD showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout--after the cutting of the king's hay. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, "Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The LORD relented concerning this. "It will not happen," He said. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The Lord GOD showed me this: The Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?" |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The LORD relented concerning this. "This will not happen either," said the Lord GOD. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The LORD asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" I replied, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them: |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Isaac's high places will be deserted, and Israel's sanctuaries will be in ruins; I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you right here in the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11for Amos has said this: 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.'" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then Amaziah said to Amos, "Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah. Earn your living and give your prophecies there, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13but don't ever prophesy at Bethel again, for it is the king's sanctuary and a royal temple." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So Amos answered Amaziah, "I was not a prophet or the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman, and I took care of sycamore figs. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'" |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Now hear the word of the LORD. You say: Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Therefore, this is what the LORD says: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided up with a measuring line. You yourself will die on pagan soil, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland. |
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