AM-7:1  Thus hath the Lord GOD showed 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.

AM-7:2  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.

AM-7:3  The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the

LORD.

AM-7:4  Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and, behold, the

Lord GOD

called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and

did eat up a

part.

AM-7:5  Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom

shall Jacob

arise? for he [is] small.

AM-7:6  The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be,

saith the Lord

GOD.

AM-7:7  Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a

wall [made] by a

plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

AM-7:8  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:

AM-7:9  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.

AM-7:10  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.

AM-7:11  For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword,

and Israel

shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

AM-7:12  Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee

away into the

land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

AM-7:13  But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it [is]

the king's

chapel, and it [is] the king's court.

AM-7:14  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 sycamore

fruit:

AM-7:15  And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the

LORD said unto

me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

AM-7:16  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.

AM-7:17  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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