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Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king's mowings.
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And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said: "O Lord God, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"
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So the Lord relented concerning this. "It shall not be," said the Lord.
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Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the territory.
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Then I said: "O Lord God, cease, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"
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So the Lord relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," said the Lord God.
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Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.
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And the Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said: "Behold, I am setting a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.