Amos 7

Warning Through Visions

7Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, He was forming a locust-swarm when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop [was] after the king's mowing.H136H3069H7200H3335H1462H8462H5927H3954H3954H310H4428H14882And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, "Lord GOD, please pardon! How can Jacob stand, For he is small?"H3615H398H6212H776H559H136H3069H5545H3290H6965H69963The LORD changed His mind about this. "It shall not be," said the LORD .H3068H5162H559H30684Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, the Lord GOD was calling to contend [with them] by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farm land.H136H3069H7200H136H3069H7121H7378H784H398H7227H8415H398H25065Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?"H559H136H3069H2308H3290H6965H69966The LORD changed His mind about this. "This too shall not be," said the Lord GOD.H3068H5162H559H136H30697Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall, with a plumb line in His hand.H7200H136H5324H2346H594H594H30278And the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold I am about to put a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel. I will spare them no longer.H3068H559H5986H7200H559H594H559H136H7760H594H7130H5971H3478H3254H56749"The high places of Isaac will be desolated And the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste. Then shall I rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."H1116H3446H8074H4720H3478H2717H6965H1004H3379H2719

Amos Accused, Answers

10Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent [word] to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words.H558H3548H1008H7971H3379H4428H3478H559H5986H7194H7130H1004H3478H776H3201H3557H169711"For thus Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'"H5986H559H3379H4191H2719H3478H1540H1540H12712Then Amaziah said to Amos, "Go, you seer, flee away to the land of Judah, and there eat bread and there do your prophesying!H558H559H5986H2374H3212H1272H776H3063H398H3899H501213"But no longer prophesy at Bethel, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal residence."H5012H3254H1008H4428H4720H4467H100414Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.H6030H5986H559H558H5030H5030H1121H951H1103H825615"But the LORD took me from following the flock and the LORD said to me, 'Go prophesy to My people Israel.'H3068H3947H310H6629H3068H559H3212H5012H5971H347816"And now hear the word of the LORD: you are saying, 'You shall not prophesy against Israel nor shall you speak against the house of Isaac.'H8085H1697H3068H559H5012H3478H5197H1004H344617"Therefore, thus says the LORD, 'Your wife will become a harlot in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a [measuring] line, and you yourself will die upon unclean soil. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'"H559H3068H802H2181H5892H1121H1323H5307H2719H127H2505H2256H4191H5921H2931H127H3478H1540H1540H127