7GOD, my Master, showed me this vision: He was preparing a locust swarm. The first cutting, which went to the king, was complete, and the second crop was just sprouting.H136H3069H7200H3335H1462H8462H5927H3954H3954H310H4428H14882The locusts ate everything green. Not even a blade of grass was left. I called out, "GOD, my Master! Excuse me, but what's going to come of Jacob? He's so small."H3615H398H6212H776H559H136H3069H5545H3290H6965H69963GOD gave in. "It won't happen," he said.H3068H5162H559H30684GOD showed me this vision: Oh! GOD, my Master GOD was calling up a firestorm. It burned up the ocean. Then it burned up the Promised Land.H136H3069H7200H136H3069H7121H7378H784H398H7227H8415H398H25065I said, "God, my Master! Hold it—please! What's going to come of Jacob? He's so small."H559H136H3069H2308H3290H6965H69966GOD gave in. "All right, this won't happen either," GOD, my Master, said.H3068H5162H559H136H30697GOD showed me this vision: My Master was standing beside a wall. In his hand he held a plumb line.H7200H136H5324H2346H594H594H30278GOD said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" I said, "A plumb line." Then my Master said, "Look what I've done. I've hung a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I've spared them for the last time. This is it!H3068H559H5986H7200H559H594H559H136H7760H594H7130H5971H3478H3254H56749Isaac's sex-and-religion shrines will be smashed, Israel's unholy shrines will be knocked to pieces. I'm raising my sword against the royal family of Jeroboam.H1116H3446H8074H4720H3478H2717H6965H1004H3379H271910Amaziah, priest at the shrine at Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel: "Amos is plotting to get rid of you; and he's doing it as an insider, working from within Israel. His talk will destroy the country. He's got to be silenced. Do you know what Amos is saying?H558H3548H1008H7971H3379H4428H3478H559H5986H7194H7130H1004H3478H776H3201H3557H169711Jeroboam will be killed. Israel is headed for exile."H5986H559H3379H4191H2719H3478H1540H1540H12712Then Amaziah confronted Amos: "Seer, be on your way! Get out of here and go back to Judah where you came from!H558H559H5986H2374H3212H1272H776H3063H398H3899H501213Hang out there. Do your preaching there. But no more preaching at Bethel! Don't show your face here again. This is the king's chapel. This is a royal shrine."H5012H3254H1008H4428H4720H4467H100414But Amos stood up to Amaziah: "I never set up to be a preacher, never had plans to be a preacher. I raised cattle and I pruned trees.H6030H5986H559H558H5030H5030H1121H951H1103H825615Then GOD took me off the farm and said, 'Go preach to my people Israel.'H3068H3947H310H6629H3068H559H3212H5012H5971H347816"So listen to GOD's Word. You tell me, 'Don't preach to Israel. Don't say anything against the family of Isaac.'H8085H1697H3068H559H5012H3478H5197H1004H344617But here's what GOD is telling you: Your wife will become a whore in town. Your children will get killed. Your land will be auctioned off. You will die homeless and friendless. And Israel will be hauled off to exile, far from home."H559H3068H802H2181H5892H1121H1323H5307H2719H127H2505H2256H4191H5921H2931H127H3478H1540H1540H127
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