1Thus Yahweh 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. 2When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
4Thus Yahweh GOD showed me: behold, Yahweh GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. 5Then I said,
7He showed me: behold, Yahweh was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8And Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then Yahweh said,
10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam 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. 11For thus Amos has said,
14Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, 15and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' 16"Now therefore hear the word of Yahweh.
You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'
17Therefore thus says Yahweh:
'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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