Amos 7:1-9 (Revised Standard Version)
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Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
2
When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
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The LORD repented concerning this; "It shall not be," said the LORD.
4
Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
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Then I said, "O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
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The LORD repented concerning this; "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD.
7
He showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
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And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;
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the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jerobo'am with the sword."
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