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Amos 7 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:1 - This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:2 - When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
“O Lord GOD, please forgive!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:3 - The LORD relented concerning this:
“It shall not be,” said the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:4 - This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:5 - Then I said,
“O Lord GOD, please cease!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:6 - The LORD relented concerning this:
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:7 - This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:8 - And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,
“Behold, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:9 - the high places of Isaac shall be made 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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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:10 - 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 is not able to bear all his words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:11 - For thus Amos has said,
“‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel must go into exile
away from his land.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:12 - And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there,

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:13 - but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:14 - Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was[fn] no prophet, nor a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:15 - But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:16 - Now therefore hear the word of the LORD.
“You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:17 - Therefore thus says the LORD:
“‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”
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