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asking me if I could see what he had there. Why, Lord, I said, a plasterer’s trowel! Ay, he answered, and here, in full view of Israel’s folk, that trowel I lay aside; cementing they shall have from me no more. (Amos 7, 8)
I was but tending sheep when the Lord took me into his service. It was the Lord bade me go and prophesy to his people of Israel. (Amos 7, 15)
Then the Lord God shewed me another vision, of a hook✻ such as they use for fruit-gathering. (Amos 8, 1)
And when he asked, could I see what he had there, Why, Lord, I said, a grappling-hook for fruit-trees! Ay, said he, and right autumn it is for my people of Israel; no further chance shall they have of repentance. (Amos 8, 2)
By Jacob’s ancient renown the Lord swears it, crimes of yours shall remain for ever unforgotten. (Amos 8, 7)
Day of doom, says the Lord God, when there shall be sunset at noon, and earth shall be overshadowed under the full light! (Amos 8, 9)
A time is coming, says the Lord God, when there shall be great lack in the land, yet neither dearth nor drought. Hunger? Ay, they shall hunger for some message from the Lord, (Amos 8, 11)
yet go they from eastern to western sea, go they from north to south, making search for it everywhere, message from the Lord they shall have none. (Amos 8, 12)
And now I saw the Lord standing above the altar; Smite column there, he cried, lintel there dislodge, nest of ill-gotten gains!✻ To the last man, the sword must take its toll; refuge shall be none. Flee they, never a fugitive shall escape; (Amos 9, 1)
The Lord God of hosts, whose touch melts earth, to the hurt of all that dwell in it, makes it everywhere mount up and sink, like Egypt’s river in flood; (Amos 9, 5)
Ethiop or Israelite, what care I? the Lord says. God that brought you here from Egypt was God that brought the Philistines from Caphtor, brought the Syrians from Cir!✻ (Amos 9, 7)
Divine regard that watches ever this kingdom, marks ever its guilt; I will blot it out, believe me, from the face of the earth.And blot out the name of Jacob altogether? Nay, not that, the Lord says. (Amos 9, 8)
