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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw him making locusts just as the crops planted late were beginning to sprout. (The crops planted late sprout after the royal harvest.) |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2When they had completely consumed the earth's vegetation, I said, "Sovereign LORD, forgive Israel! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The LORD decided not to do this. "It will not happen," the LORD said. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The sovereign LORD showed me this: I saw the sovereign LORD summoning a shower of fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the fields. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I said, "Sovereign LORD, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!" |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The LORD decided not to do this. The sovereign LORD said, "This will not happen either." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7He showed me this: I saw the sovereign One standing by a tin wall holding tin in his hand. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The LORD said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" I said, "Tin." The sovereign One then said, "Look, I am about to place tin among my people Israel. I will no longer overlook their sin. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Isaac's centers of worship will become desolate; Israel's holy places will be in ruins. I will attack Jeroboam's dynasty with the sword." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent this message to King Jeroboam of Israel: "Amos is conspiring against you in the very heart of the kingdom of Israel! The land cannot endure all his prophecies. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11As a matter of fact, Amos is saying this: 'Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.'" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Amaziah then said to Amos, "Leave, you visionary! Run away to the land of Judah! Earn your living and prophesy there! |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Don't prophesy at Bethel any longer, for a royal temple and palace are here!" |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Amos replied to Amaziah, "I was not a prophet by profession. No, I was a herdsman who also took care of sycamore fig trees. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Then the LORD took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission, 'Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!' |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So now listen to the LORD's message! You say, 'Don't prophesy against Israel! Don't preach against the family of Isaac!' |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Therefore this is what the LORD says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets and your sons and daughters will die violently. Your land will be given to others and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.'" |
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