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          DASV: Amos 7

1 This is what the sovereign LORD showed me: look, he formed
locusts just as the latter planting was beginning to sprout.
This was the latter growth after the king's harvest.
2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
"O sovereign LORD forgive, I beg you. How can Jacob survive?
For he is so small."

3 The LORD changed his mind about doing this. "It will not be,"
says the LORD.
4 So the sovereign LORD showed me: look, the sovereign LORD
called for a punishment by fire, and it devoured the great deep,
and was devouring the land.
5 Then I said, "O sovereign LORD stop, I beg you. How can Jacob
survive? For he is so small."
6 The LORD changed his mind about doing this. "This also will
not be," says the sovereign LORD.

7 So he showed me: look, the Lord stood beside a wall built
straight by a plumb line, he too was using a plumb line in his hand.
8 The LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I replied,
"A plumb line." Then the Lord said,
     "Look, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel;
            I will not longer spare them.
9 The high places of Isaac will be desolate,
            and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste;
      I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."

10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of
Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst
of the house of Israel. The land cannot tolerate all his words.
11 For Amos is saying,
     'Jeroboam will die by the sword,
     and Israel will surely be led away into exile
     out of his land.'"
12 Amaziah also told Amos, "O seer, go, flee to the land of
Judah. Earn your bread and prophesy there.
13 Do not prophesy any more at Bethel, for it is the king's
sanctuary, and it is a royal house."

14 Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I am not a professional
prophet, nor was I trained as a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman,
who took care of sycamore trees.
15 The LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said
to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
16 Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say,
     'Do not prophesy against Israel,
     and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'
17 Therefore this is what the LORD says:
     'Your wife will be a harlot in the city,
     and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword,
     and your land will be split up by a measuring line.
     You yourself will die in an unclean land,
     and Israel will surely
      be led away into exile out of its land.'"
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