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 <div class="p">1This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king&#8217;s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. 2When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, &#8220;Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 3So the Lord relented.</div><div class="p">&#8220;This will not happen,&#8221; the Lord said.</div><div class="p"> 4This 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. 5Then I cried out, &#8220;Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 6So the Lord relented.</div><div class="p">&#8220;This will not happen either,&#8221; the Sovereign Lord said.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 7This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,#7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain. with a plumb line#7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain; also in verse 8. in his hand. 8And the Lord asked me, &#8220;What do you see, Amos?&#8221;</div><div class="p">&#8220;A plumb line,&#8221; I replied.</div><div class="p">Then the Lord said, &#8220;Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.</div><div class="q1"> 9&#8220;The high places of Isaac will be destroyed</div><div class="q2">and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined;</div><div class="q2">with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.&#8221;</div><div class="s1">Amos and Amaziah</div><div class="p"> 10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: &#8220;Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. 11For this is what Amos is saying:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Jeroboam will die by the sword,</div><div class="q2">and Israel will surely go into exile,</div><div class="q2">away from their native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 12Then Amaziah said to Amos, &#8220;Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. 13Don&#8217;t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king&#8217;s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.&#8221;</div><div class="p"> 14Amos answered Amaziah, &#8220;I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. 15But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, &#8216;Go, prophesy to my people Israel.&#8217; 16Now then, hear the word of the Lord. You say,</div><div class="q1">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not prophesy against Israel,</div><div class="q2">and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.&#8217;</div><div class="p"> 17&#8220;Therefore this is what the Lord says:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Your wife will become a prostitute in the city,</div><div class="q2">and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.</div><div class="q1">Your land will be measured and divided up,</div><div class="q2">and you yourself will die in a pagan#7:17 Hebrew an unclean country.</div><div class="q1">And Israel will surely go into exile,</div><div class="q2">away from their native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</div>
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