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Amos 7:1-9; Amos 7:10
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Amos 7:1-9
1
This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up.
2
When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, “Sovereign LORD, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
3
So the LORD relented. “This will not happen,” the LORD said.
4
This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: The Sovereign LORD was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.
5
Then I cried out, “Sovereign LORD, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
6
So the LORD relented. “This will not happen either,” the Sovereign LORD said.
7
This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand.
8
And the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
9
“The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.”
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Amos 7:10
10
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
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