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The house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, from that day forward.

Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore.

"This shall be their inheritance: I am their inheritance: and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possession.

And the Lord said, "Call his name Not My People, for you are not my people, and I am not your God."

"Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband— that she put away her whoring from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts;

But I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like dry rot to the house of Judah.

I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.

Ephraim has said, "Ah, but I am rich; I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they cannot find in me iniquity or sin."

I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.

But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.

So I am to them like a lion; like a leopard I will lurk beside the way.

O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.

The Lord answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame.

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, "I am a warrior."

"So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who dwells in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem shall be holy, and strangers shall never again pass through it.

And the Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;

And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear the Lord , the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."

Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; yet I shall again look upon your holy temple.'

Therefore thus says the Lord : behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.