Amos:7

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drb @Amos:7:1 @These things the Lord God shewed to me : and behold the locust was formed in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter rain , and lo , it was the latter rain after the king 's mowing . drb @Amos:7:2 @And it came to pass , that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land , I said : O Lord God , be merciful , I beseech thee : who shall raise up Jacob , for he is very little ? drb @Amos:7:3 @The Lord had pity upon this : It shall not be , said the Lord . drb @Amos:7:4 @These things the Lord God shewed to me : and behold the Lord called for judgment unto fire , and it devoured the great deep , and ate up a part at the same time . drb @Amos:7:5 @And I said : O Lord God , cease , I beseech thee , who shall raise up Jacob , for he is a little one ? drb @Amos:7:6 @The Lord had pity upon this . Yea this also shall not be , said the Lord God . drb @Amos:7:7 @These things the Lord shewed to me : and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall , and in his hand a mason 's trowel . drb @Amos:7:8 @And the Lord said to me : What seest thou , Amos ? And I said : A mason 's trowel . And the Lord said : Behold , I will lay down the trowel in the midst of my people Israel . I will plaster them over no more . drb @Amos:7:9 @And the high places of the idol shall be thrown down , and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste : and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword . drb @Amos:7:10 @And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel , saying : Amos hath rebelled against thee in the midst of the house of Israel : the land is not able to bear all his words . drb @Amos:7:11 @For thus saith Amos : Jeroboam shall die by the sword , and Israel shall be carried away captive out of their own land . drb @Amos:7:12 @And Amasias said to Amos : Thou seer , go , flee away into the land of Juda : and eat bread there , and prophesy there . drb @Amos:7:13 @But prophesy not again any more in Bethel : because it is the king 's sanctuary , and it is the house of the kingdom . drb @Amos:7:14 @And Amos answered and said to Amasias : I am not a prophet , nor am I the son of a prophet : but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs . drb @Amos:7:15 @And the Lord took me when I followed the flock , and the Lord said to me : Go , prophesy to my people Israel . drb @Amos:7:16 @And now hear thou the word of the Lord : Thou sayest , thou shalt not prophesy against Israel , and thou shalt not drop thy word upon the house of the idol drb @Amos:7:17 @Therefore thus saith the Lord : Thy wife shall play the harlot in the city , and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword , and thy land shall be measured by a line : and thou shalt die in a polluted land , and Israel shall go into captivity out of their land .

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