The Holy Bible : English > The book of Amos > Chapter 7

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¹ Thus the Lord The LORD showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, behold, it was the latter growth after the king`s harvest.

² It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, Lord The LORD, forgive, I beg you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

³ The LORD repented concerning this: It shall not be, says The LORD.

⁴ Thus the Lord The LORD showed me: and, behold, the Lord The LORD called to content by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.

⁵ Then said I, Lord The LORD, cease, I beg you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

⁶ The LORD repented concerning this: this also shall not be, says the Lord The LORD.

⁷ Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.

⁸ The LORD said to me, Amos, what see you? I said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more;

⁹ and the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

¹⁰ Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el 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.

¹¹ For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.

¹² Also Amaziah said to Amos, you seer, go, flee you away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

¹³ but don`t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king`s sanctuary, and it is a royal house.

¹⁴ Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet`s son; but I was 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 you the word of The LORD: You say, Don`t prophesy against Israel, and don`t drop [your word] against the house of Isaac;

¹⁷ therefore thus says The LORD: Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.