Amos:7

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* Thus did the Lord Eternal show unto me : and , behold , he was forming locusts in the beginning of the sprouting up of the latter groweth ; and , lo , it was the latter growth after the king ’s mowings . * And it came to pass , when they had made an end of eating up the herbs of the earth , that I said , O Lord Eternal , forgive , I beseech thee : how should Jacob be able to endure , since he is so small ! * The Lord bethought himself of this : It shall not be , said the Lord . * Thus did the Lord Eternal show unto me : and , behold , the Lord Eternal called forth the punishment by fire , and it devoured the great deep , and consumed the ploughed field . * Then said I , O Lord Eternal , forbear , I beseech thee : how should Jacob be able to endure , since he is so small ! * The Lord bethought himself of this : Also this shall not be , said the Lord Eternal . * Thus he showed unto me : and , behold , the Lord was standing upon a wall by a plumbline , and in his hand was a plumbline . * And the Lord said unto me , What dost thou see , ‘Amos ? And I said , A plumbline . Then said the Lord , Behold , I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel ; I will not farther indulge them any more . * And the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate , and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid in ruins : and I will rise up against the house of Jerobo ’am with the sword . * Then sent Amazyah , the priest of Beth –el , to Jerobo ’am the king of Israel , saying , ‘Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel : the land is not able to bear all his words . * For thus hath ‘Amos said , By the sword shall Jerobo ’am die , and Israel shall surely be led away into exile out of their own land . * And Amazyah said unto ‘Amos , Seer , go , flee thee away into the land of Judah , and eat there bread , and there prophesy ; * But at Beth –el prophesy not farther any more ; for it is the king ’s sanctuary , and it is a royal residence . * Then answered ‘Amos , and said to Amazyah , I am no prophet , nor am I a prophet ’s son ; but I am a herdman , and a gatherer of wild figs ; * But the Lord hath taken me away from behind the flocks , and the Lord said unto me , Go , prophesy unto my people Israel . * And now hear thou the word of the Lord , Thou sayest , Prophesy not against Israel , and preach not against the house of Isaac . * Therefore thus hath said the Lord , Thy wife will play the harlot in the city , and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword , and thy land shall be divided out by the line ; and thou shalt die in an unclean land ; and Israel shall surely be led forth into exile out of their land .

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