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And I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not indeed so, O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
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Israel's Guilt and Punishment
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
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offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill offerings, publish them; for so you love to do, O people of Israel!” declares the Lord God.
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“Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
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Seek the Lord and Live
Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
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O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!
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“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?
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“For behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel,” declares the Lord, the God of hosts; “and they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
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When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, “O Lord God, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”
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Then I said, “O Lord God, please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”
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And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there,
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Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’ and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’ they shall fall, and never rise again.”
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“Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?” declares the Lord. “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?