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Amos 7:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.” "

Amos 7:9

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7 Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

8 The LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

9 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

11 For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”

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Amos 7:1

"Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest."

Amos 7:2

"When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”"

Amos 7:3

"The LORD relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says the LORD."

Amos 7:4

"Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land."

Amos 7:5

"Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”"

Amos 7:6

"The LORD relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord GOD."

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