1The Lord Jehovah showed me this vision: Behold, he formed locusts In the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; Behold, it was the latter growth 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 when they had devoured the grass of the land, Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob stand? For he is small!

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

3Jehovah repented of this; It shall not be, said Jehovah.

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

4The Lord Jehovah also showed me this vision: Behold, the Lord Jehovah commanded the fire to execute judgment; And it devoured the great deep, And it devoured the fields.

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

5Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, desist, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob stand? For he is small!

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

6Jehovah repented of this; This also shall not be, said the Lord Jehovah.

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

7He also showed me this vision: Behold, the Lord stood upon a wall, built with a plumb-line, And in his hand was a plumb-line;

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

8And Jehovah said to me, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, A plumb-line. And the Lord said, Behold I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not spare them any more.

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

9The high places of Isaac shall be desolate, And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, And I will rise 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

10Then sent Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, To Jeroboam, the king of Israel, and said: Amos conspireth 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 hath Amos said: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, And Israel shall surely be led captive from 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 Amaziah said to Amos, Go, thou seer! flee into the land of Judah! There eat thy bread, and there prophesy!

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

13But prophesy no more at Bethel, For it is the king’s sanctuary, And it is the king’s abode.

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

14Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: I was no prophet, nor the son of a prophet; I was a shepherd, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit.

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

15And Jehovah took me from the flock; And Jehovah 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

16Now, therefore, hear the word of Jehovah: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, And speak no word against the house of Isaac!

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

17Therefore thus saith Jehovah: "Thy wife shall be put to shame in the city, And thy sons and daughters shall fall by the sword; Thy land shall be divided by the line, And thou shalt die in a polluted land, And Israel shall surely be led captive from his own land."

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