Chapter 7

In three visions many miseries are revealed, which shall come upon both the Kingdoms. ℣.10 A false Priest of Bethel accusing the Prophet of sedition, and endeavouring to chase him away, ℣.14 is by him forewarned of miseries of his family, and death to himself.

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   These things hath our Lord God shewed to me: and lo the former of the locust in the beginning of things that spring of the later rain, and behold the later rain after the king's mowing.

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   And it came to pass: after it had finished to eat the grass of the land, I said: O Lord God be propitious I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob, because he is a little one?

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   Our Lord hath had pity upon this: It shall not be, saith our Lord.

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   These things hath our Lord God called judgement unto fire, and it devoured the great depth and it did eat a part together.

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   And I said: Lord God be quiet I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob, because he is a little one?

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   Our Lord had pity upon this: Yea this also shall not be, saith our Lord God.

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   These things hath our Lord shewed to me: and lo our Lord standing upon a wall plastered, and in his hand a mason's trowel.

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   And our Lord said to me: What seest thou Amos? And I said: A mason's trowel. And our Lord said: Behold I will lay down the trowel in the midst of my people Israel: I will add no more to plaster it over.

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   And the excelses of the idol shall be thrown down, and the sanctifications of Israel shall be made desolate: and I will rise upon the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

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    And Amasias the Priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam the king of Israel, saying: Amos hath rebelled against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will not be able to sustain all his words.

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    For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall depart captive out of their land.

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    And Amasias said to Amos: Thou that seest, go, fly into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and thou shalt prophesy there.

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    And in Bethel thou shalt add no more to prophesy: because it is the sanctification of the king, and it is the house of the kingdom.

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    And Amos answered, and said to Amasias: I am not a Prophet and I am not the son of a Prophet: but an herdsman am I plucking sycamores.

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

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    And now hear the word of our Lord: Thou sayest: Thou shalt not prophesy upon Israel, and thou shalt not distill upon the house of the idol.

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    Therefore thus saith our Lord: Thy wife shall fornicate in the city, and thy sons, and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy ground shall be measured with a cord, and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall depart captive out of their land.