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Yahweh Will Rise Up Against Israel

Thus Lord Yahweh showed me, and behold, He was forming a (A)locust-swarm [a]when the spring crop began to come up. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s [b]mowing. And it happened [c]when it had (B)completed eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,

(C)Lord Yahweh, please pardon!
[d]How can Jacob rise up,
For he is (D)small?”
Yahweh [e](E)relented concerning this.
“It shall not be,” said Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:1 Lit at the beginning of the coming up of
  2. Amos 7:1 Or shearings
  3. Amos 7:2 Lit if
  4. Amos 7:2 Lit As who
  5. Amos 7:3 Or regretted

Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me:(A) He was preparing swarms of locusts(B) after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. When they had stripped the land clean,(C) I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?(D) He is so small!(E)

So the Lord relented.(F)

“This will not happen,” the Lord said.(G)

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