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This is what the Lord
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When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
"O Lord
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!"
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The
"It shall not be," said the
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This is what the Lord
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Then I said,
"O Lord
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!"
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The
"This also shall not be," said the Lord
7 This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
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And the
"See, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass them by;
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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."
10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the very center of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.
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For thus Amos has said,
"Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel must go into exile
away from his land.' "
12 And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, earn your bread there, and prophesy there; 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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Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I am 2 no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am 2 a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,
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and the
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"Now therefore hear the word of the
You say, "Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'
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Therefore thus says the
"Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be parceled out by line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.' "