1These 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.

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Joel 1:4, Joel 1:4, Amos 8:1, Amos 8:1, Joel 2:25

2And 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?

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Isaiah 37:4, Ezekiel 11:13, Isaiah 37:4, Ezekiel 11:13, Exodus 10:15

3The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.

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Deuteronomy 32:36, Deuteronomy 32:36, Jonah 3:10, Jonah 3:10, Hosea 11:8

4These 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.

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Amos 7:1, Isaiah 66:15, Isaiah 66:16, Amos 7:1, Isaiah 66:15

5And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?

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Psalms 85:4, Psalms 85:4, Jeremiah 30:19, Isaiah 10:25, Joel 2:17

6The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not be, said the Lord God.

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Psalms 90:13, Judges 2:18, Judges 10:16, Psalms 135:14, Jeremiah 26:19

7These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel.

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2 Kings 21:13, 2 Kings 21:13, Revelation 21:15, Revelation 21:15, Isaiah 28:17

8And 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.

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Amos 8:2, Amos 8:2, Lamentations 2:8, Lamentations 2:8, Jeremiah 15:6

9And 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.

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2 Kings 15:8, 2 Kings 15:10, 2 Kings 15:8, 2 Kings 15:10, Genesis 46:1

10And 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.

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Jeremiah 38:4, Jeremiah 38:4, 1 Kings 12:31, 1 Kings 12:32, 1 Kings 12:31

11For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be carried away captive out of their own land.

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2 Kings 17:6, 2 Kings 17:6, Psalms 56:5, Amos 7:9, Amos 6:7

12And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

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Matthew 8:34, 1 Samuel 9:9, 1 Corinthians 2:14, Matthew 8:34, 1 Samuel 9:9

13But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.

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1 Kings 12:32, Amos 2:12, 1 Kings 12:32, Amos 2:12, 1 Kings 12:29

14And 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.

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Amos 1:1, Amos 1:1, 2 Kings 4:38, Zechariah 13:5, 2 Kings 2:5

15And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.

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2 Samuel 7:8, 2 Samuel 7:8, Ezekiel 2:3, Ezekiel 2:4, Ezekiel 2:3

16And 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.

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Ezekiel 20:46, Ezekiel 20:46, Micah 2:6, Ezekiel 21:2, Micah 2:6

17Therefore 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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Hosea 9:3, Hosea 9:3, 2 Kings 17:6, 2 Kings 17:6, Jeremiah 28:16