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AMOS ยท Chapter 7
7:1 Thus has the Lord GOD showed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers
in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was
the latter growth after the king's mowings.
7:2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the
grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I plead to you: by
whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
7:3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, says the LORD.
7:4 Thus has the Lord GOD showed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD
called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat
up a part.
7:5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I plead to you: by whom shall Jacob
arise? for he is small.
7:6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, says the Lord
GOD.
7:7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made
by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.
7:8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what see you? And I said, A plumb-line.
Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my
people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
7:9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries
of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam
with the sword.
7:10 Then 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 is not able to bear all his words.
7:11 For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel
shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
7:12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O you seer, go, flee you away into
the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
7:13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's
chapel, and it is the king's court.
7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither
was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycomore
fruit:
7:15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said
unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
7:16 Now therefore hear you the word of the LORD: You says, Prophesy
not against Israel, and drop not your word against the house of Isaac.
7:17 Therefore thus says the LORD; Your wife shall be an harlot in
the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and
your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land:
and Israel shall surely go into captivity out of his land.
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