Amos 7:8
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8 And the Lord said to me, (A)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,
“Behold, I am setting (B)a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
(C)I will never again pass by them;
Amos 8:2
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2 And he said, (A)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, (B)“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,
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- Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike
Ezekiel 7:2-9
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2 “And you, (A)O son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: (B)An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.[a] 3 Now (C)the end is upon you, and (D)I will send my anger upon you; (E)I will judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. 4 (F)And my eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity, but (G)I will punish you for your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. (H)Then you will know that I am the Lord.
5 “Thus says the Lord God: Disaster (I)after disaster![b] Behold, it comes. 6 (J)An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. 7 (K)Your doom[c] has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. (L)The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not (M)of joyful shouting on the mountains. 8 Now I will soon (N)pour out my wrath upon you, and (O)spend my anger against you, (P)and judge you according to your ways, and I will punish you for all your abominations. 9 (Q)And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. (R)Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.
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- Ezekiel 7:2 Or earth
- Ezekiel 7:5 Some Hebrew manuscripts (compare Syriac, Targum); most Hebrew manuscripts Disaster! A unique disaster!
- Ezekiel 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; also verse 10
Jeremiah 15:6
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6 (A)You have rejected me, declares the Lord;
(B)you keep going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
(C)I am weary of relenting.
Micah 7:18
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God's Steadfast Love and Compassion
18 (A)Who is a God like you, (B)pardoning iniquity
and passing over transgression
(C)for the remnant of his inheritance?
(D)He does not retain his anger forever,
because he delights in steadfast love.
Isaiah 28:17
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17 And I will make justice (A)the line,
and righteousness (B)the plumb line;
and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies,
and waters will overwhelm the shelter.”
2 Kings 21:13
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13 (A)And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
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Zechariah 5:2
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2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying (A)scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”[a]
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- Zechariah 5:2 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
Nahum 1:8-9
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Jeremiah 1:11-13
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11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, (A)“Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see an almond[a] branch.” 12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”
13 The word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see (B)a boiling pot, facing away (C)from the north.”
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- Jeremiah 1:11 Almond sounds like the Hebrew for watching (compare verse 12)
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