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katapi HOME Amos 7:7-17 - A vision of a plumb-line.  Am.7.7-17

7 7 He showed me: behold, Yahweh was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 7 8 And Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then Yahweh said,

"Behold, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them;
7 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 Jeroboam with the sword."

7 10 Then 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. 7 11 For thus Amos has said,

'Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel must go into exile away from his land.' " 7 12 And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there; 7 13 but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom."

7 14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees, 7 15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' 7 16 "Now therefore hear the word of Yahweh.
You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'
7 17 Therefore 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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