| 7 | Amos | ||
| 1 | Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. | A vision of locusts. Am.7.1-3 | |
| 2 | When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, How can Jacob stand? He is so small!" | ||
| 3 | The LORD repented concerning this; "It shall not be," said the LORD. | ||
| 4 | Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. | A vision of Fire. Am.7.4-6 | |
| 5 | Then I said, How can Jacob stand? He is so small!" | ||
| 6 | The LORD repented concerning this; "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD. | ||
| 7 | He showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. | A vision of a plumb-line. Am.7.7-17 | |
| 8 | And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them; | ||
| 9 | the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jerobo'am with the sword." | ||
| 10 | Then Amazi'ah the priest of Bethel sent to Jerobo'am king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. | ||
| 11 | For thus Amos has said, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.'" | ||
| 12 | And Amazi'ah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there; | ||
| 13 | but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom." | ||
| 14 | Then Amos answered Amazi'ah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, | ||
| 15 | and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' | ||
| 16 | "Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.' | ||
| 17 | Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.'" | ||
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