These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Amos 7
Tanakh 17 verses
- 1 Thus showed me; and, behold, He formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
- 2 And if it had come to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land—so I said: O , forgive, I beseech Thee; How shall stand? for he is small.
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The repented concerning this; ‘It shall not be’, saith .
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- 4 Thus showed me; and, behold, called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.
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Then said I: O , cease, I beseech Thee; How shall stand? for he is small.
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The repented concerning this; ‘This also shall not be’, saith .
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- 7 Thus He showed me; and, behold, stood beside a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in His hand.
- 8 And said unto me: ‘, what seest thou?’ And I said: ‘A plumbline.’ Then said : Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of My people ; I will not again pardon them any more;
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And the high places of shall be desolate, And the sanctuaries of shall be laid waste; And I will rise against the house of with the sword.
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- 10 Then Amaziah the of Beth-el sent to of , saying: ‘ hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of ; the land is not able to bear all his words.
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For thus saith: shall die by the sword, And shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’
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- 12 Also Amaziah said unto : ‘O thou , go, flee thee away into the land of , and there eat bread, and prophesy there;
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but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el, for it is the king’s , and it is a royal house.’
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- 14 Then answered , and said to Amaziah: ‘I was no , neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees;
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and took me from following the flock, and said unto me: Go, prophesy unto My people .
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Now therefore thou the of : Thou sayest: Prophesy not against , And preach not against the house of ;
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- 17 Therefore thus saith : Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, And thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, And thy land shall be divided by line; And thou thyself shalt die in an unclean land, And shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’