1 | Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers
in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the
latter growth after the king's mowings.
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2 | And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass
of the land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall
Jacob arise? for he is small.
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3 | The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord.
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4 | Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord God called to
contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
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5 | Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise?
for he is small.
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6 | The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.
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7 | Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a
plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
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8 | And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? 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 again pass by them any more:
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9 | And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of
Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with
the sword.
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10 | Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam 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.
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11 | For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall
surely be led away captive out of their own land.
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12 | Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land
of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
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13 | But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel,
and it is the king's court.
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14 | Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was
I a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
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15 | And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me,
Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
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16 | Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not
against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
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17 | Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city,
and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be
divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely
go into captivity forth of his land.
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