## Yahweh Will Rise Up Against Israel 

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Thus Lord Yahweh showed me, and behold, He was forming a locust-swarm when the spring crop began to come up. And behold, the spring crop _was_ after the king's mowing. 

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And it happened when it had completed eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, "Lord Yahweh, please pardon! How can Jacob rise up, For he is small?" 

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Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," said Yahweh. 

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Thus Lord Yahweh showed me, and behold, Lord Yahweh was calling to contend _with them_ by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farm land. 

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Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob rise up, for he is small?" 

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Yahweh relented concerning this. "This too shall not be," said Lord Yahweh. 

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Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a wall _made with_ a plumb line, and in His hand was a plumb line. 

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And Yahweh said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am about to put a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel. I will pass over them no longer. 

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The high places of Isaac will be desolated And the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste. Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." 

## Amos Accused 

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Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent _word_ to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words. 

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For thus Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'" 

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Then Amaziah said to Amos, "Go, you seer, flee away to the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and there do your prophesying! 

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But no longer prophesy at Bethel, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal house." 

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Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs. 

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But Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go prophesy to My people Israel.' 

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So now, hear the word of Yahweh: you are saying, 'You shall not prophesy against Israel, nor shall you drip out _words_ against the house of Isaac.' 

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Therefore, thus says Yahweh, 'Your wife will play the harlot in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up by a _measuring_ line, and you yourself will die upon unclean land. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'"