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   <div class="book bkAMO">
      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="AMO.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king&#8217;s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="content">&#8220;This will not happen,&#8221; the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then I cried out, &#8220;Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> relented.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="content">&#8220;This will not happen either,&#8221; the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> with a plumb line</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain; also in verse 8.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> asked me, &#8220;What do you see, Amos?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">&#8220;A plumb line,&#8221; I replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">Then the Lord said, &#8220;Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;The high places of Isaac will be destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Amos and Amaziah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: &#8220;Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For this is what Amos is saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Jeroboam will die by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">and Israel will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">away from their native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then Amaziah said to Amos, &#8220;Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king&#8217;s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Amos answered Amaziah, &#8220;I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> took me from tending the flock and said to me, &#8216;Go, prophesy to my people Israel.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Now then, hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. You say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Do not prophesy against Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="AMO.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Your wife will become a prostitute in the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">Your land will be measured and divided up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">and you yourself will die in a pagan</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">an unclean</span></span></span><span class="content"> country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">And Israel will surely go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="AMO.7.17"><span class="content">away from their native land.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch8" data-usfm="AMO.8">
         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Basket of Ripe Fruit</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> showed me: a basket of ripe fruit. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;What do you see, Amos?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="content">&#8220;A basket of ripe fruit,&#8221; I answered.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">&#8220;the temple singers will wail</span></span></span><span class="content"> Many, many bodies&#8212;flung everywhere! Silence!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Hear this, you who trample the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.8.4"><span class="content">and do away with the poor of the land,</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.8.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">&#8220;When will the New Moon be over</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">that we may sell grain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">and the Sabbath be ended</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">that we may market wheat?&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">skimping on the measure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">boosting the price</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">and cheating with dishonest scales,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.8.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">buying the poor with silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="content">and the needy for a pair of sandals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="content">selling even the sweepings with the wheat.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.8.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: &#8220;I will never forget anything they have done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.8.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Will not the land tremble for this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">and all who live in it mourn?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">The whole land will rise like the Nile;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">it will be stirred up and then sink</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">like the river of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="content">&#8220;I will make the sun go down at noon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="content">and darken the earth in broad daylight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I will turn your religious festivals into mourning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">and all your singing into weeping.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">I will make all of you wear sackcloth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">and shave your heads.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">I will make that time like mourning for an only son</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">and the end of it like a bitter day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.8.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">&#8220;when I will send a famine through the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">not a famine of food or a thirst for water,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">but a famine of hearing the words of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.8.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">People will stagger from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">and wander from north to east,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">searching for the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">but they will not find it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.8.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="content">&#8220;the lovely young women and strong young men</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="content">will faint because of thirst.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Those who swear by the sin of Samaria&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="content">who say, &#8216;As surely as your god lives, Dan,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="content">or, &#8216;As surely as the god</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">the way</span></span></span><span class="content"> of Beersheba lives&#8217;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.8.14"><span class="content">they will fall, never to rise again.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch9" data-usfm="AMO.9">
         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel to Be Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Strike the tops of the pillars</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">so that the thresholds shake.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">Bring them down on the heads of all the people;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">those who are left I will kill with the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">Not one will get away,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">none will escape.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Though they dig down to the depths below,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">from there my hand will take them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">Though they climb up to the heavens above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">from there I will bring them down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">there I will hunt them down and seize them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">there I will command the serpent to bite them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">there I will command the sword to slay them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">&#8220;I will keep my eye on them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">for harm and not for good.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">he touches the earth and it melts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">and all who live in it mourn;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">the whole land rises like the Nile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">then sinks like the river of Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">he builds his lofty palace</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">and sets its foundation</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:6 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> on the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">he calls for the waters of the sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">and pours them out over the face of the land&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is his name.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are not you Israelites</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">the same to me as the Cushites</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, people from the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">the Philistines from Caphtor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, Crete</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">and the Arameans from Kir?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely the eyes of the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">are on the sinful kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">I will destroy it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">from the face of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">Yet I will not totally destroy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">the descendants of Jacob,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;For I will give the command,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">and I will shake the people of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">among all the nations</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">as grain is shaken in a sieve,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">and not a pebble will reach the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.9.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">All the sinners among my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">will die by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">all those who say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">&#8216;Disaster will not overtake or meet us.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Restoration</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">&#8220;I will restore David&#8217;s fallen shelter&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">I will repair its broken walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">and restore its ruins&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">and will rebuild it as it used to be,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">so that they may possess the remnant of Edom</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="content">and all the nations that bear my name,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">so that the remnant of people / and all the nations that bear my name may seek me</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who will do these things.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.9.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;The days are coming,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">&#8220;when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">and the planter by the one treading grapes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">New wine will drip from the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">and flow from all the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.9.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and I will bring my people Israel back from exile.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will restore the fortunes of my people Israel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">&#8220;They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">they will make gardens and eat their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.9.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will plant Israel in their own land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="content">never again to be uprooted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="content">from the land I have given them,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.9.15"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God.</span></span></div>
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