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Amos 7:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Amos 7:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Visions: Amos, Confidant of God
Chapter 7
The Vision of Locusts. 1 This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming a swarm of locusts after the king’s share[a] had been harvested and the second growth was beginning to sprout. 2 When the locusts had finished eating all the grass in the land, I said:
Lord God, forgive, I beg you.
Jacob is so small;
how can he survive?
3 Thereupon the Lord relented. “This shall not happen,” said the Lord God.
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- Amos 7:1 The king’s share: part of the first mowing was reserved for the king as a kind of tax.