| 1. Thus the Lord God showed me, and behold He was forming locusts at the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth, and behold the latter growth after the king's mowings. |
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| 2. And it came to pass, when it finished eating the grass of the earth, that I said, "O Lord God! Forgive now! Who shall arise [with] Jacob, for he is small?" |
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| 3. The Lord relented concerning this. It shall not come about, said the Lord. |
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| 4. Thus the Lord God showed me, and behold the Lord God calls to contend by fire, and it consumed the great deep and consumed the field. |
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| 5. And I said, "O Lord God! Desist now! Who shall arise [with] Jacob, for he is small?" |
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| 6. The Lord relented concerning this; this too shall not come to pass, said the Lord God. |
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| 7. Thus He showed me, and behold the Lord was standing on a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in His hand. |
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| 8. And the Lord said to me; What do you see, Amos? And I said, "A plumbline." And the Lord said: Behold I place a plumbline in the midst of My people Israel; I will no longer pardon them. |
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| 9. And the high places of Isaac shall become desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be ruined, and I will rise upon the house of Jeroboam with the sword. |
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| 10. And Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land will be unable to endure all his words. |
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| 11. For so said Amos; Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be exiled off its land." |
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| 12. And Amaziah said to Amos, "Seer, go, run away to the land of Judah and eat bread there; and prophesy there. |
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| 13. But do not continue to prophesy in Bethel for it is the sanctuary of a king and the capital of the kingdom. |
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| 14. And Amos replied and said to Amaziah, "I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I am a cattle herder and an inspector of sycamores. |
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| 15. And the Lord took me from following the flock, and He said to me; Go, prophesy to My people Israel. |
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| 16. And now, hearken to the word of the Lord. You say, "Do not prophesy concerning Israel and do not prophesy concerning the house of Isaac." |
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| 17. Therefore, so said the Lord: Your wife shall play the harlot in the city, and your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by lot, and you shall die on unclean soil, and Israel shall be exiled from its land. |
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