[1] Thus has the Lord GOD showed to me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, see, 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 you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
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[3] The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, says the LORD. ¶
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[4] Thus has the Lord GOD showed to 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 you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
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[6] The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, says the Lord GOD. ¶
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[7] Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood on a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
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[8] And the LORD said to me, Amos, what see you? And I said, A plumb line. Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle 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 has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
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[11] For thus Amos says, 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 to Amos, O you seer, go, flee you 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 herdsman, 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 to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel. ¶
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[16] Now therefore hear you the word of the LORD: You say, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not your word against the house of Isaac.
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[17] Therefore thus says the LORD; Your wife shall be an harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
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