Amos:7:1-9
web@Amos:7:1 @ Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest.
web@Amos:7:2 @ It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
web@Amos:7:3 @ Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.
web@Amos:7:4 @ Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
web@Amos:7:5 @ Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
web@Amos:7:6 @ Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.
web@Amos:7:7 @ Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
web@Amos:7:8 @ Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
web@Amos:7:9 @ The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."
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