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And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
And as they were going down to the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us, (and he passed on,) but stand thou still a while, that I may shew thee the word of God.
So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?
And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.
The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.
Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.
And they returned, and came to En-mishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezon-tamar.
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;
At the same time spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
