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chapter 7
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These
things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the locust was formed in the
beginning of the shooting up of the latter rain, and lo, it was the latter rain
after the king's mowing.
2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end
of eating the grass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech
thee: who shall raise up Jacob, for he is very little?
3 The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said
the Lord.
4 These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold
the Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate
up a part at the same time.
5 And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who
shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?
6 The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not
be, said the Lord God.
7 These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the
Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel.
8 And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Amos? And I
said: A mason's trowel. And the Lord said: Behold, I will lay down the trowel
in the midst of my people Israel. I will plaster them over no more.
9 And the high places of the idol shall be thrown down,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste: and I will rise up against
the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
10 And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam
king of Israel, saying: Amos hath rebelled against thee in the midst of the
house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
11 For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the
sword, and Israel shall be carried away captive out of their own land.
12 And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away
into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.
13 But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because
it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.
14 And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I am not a
prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet: but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs.
15 And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and
the Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.
16 And now hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest,
thou shalt not prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop thy word upon
the house of the idol.
17 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife shall play
the harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword,
and thy land shall be measured by a line: and thou shalt die in a polluted
land, and Israel shall go into captivity out of their land.
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