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1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: Look! He was forming locust swarms as the latter plantings were just beginning to sprout. Indeed, the king had just taken his first fruit tax. This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up.
2 And so it came about that when the swarm had finished eating the grass of the land, I was saying, |Lord GOD, forgive—please! How will Jacob stand, since he is small?| When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, “O Lord GOD, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!” When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, “Sovereign LORD, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
3 So the LORD relented from this. |This will not happen,| said the LORD. The LORD relented concerning this: “It shall not be,” said the LORD. So the LORD relented. “This will not happen,” the LORD said.
4 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: Look! The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire, and it was drying up the great depths of the ocean and consuming the land. This is what 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. This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: The Sovereign LORD was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.
5 So I kept on saying, |Lord GOD, forgive—please! How will Jacob stand, since he is so small?| Then I said, “O Lord GOD, please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!” Then I cried out, “Sovereign LORD, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
6 So the LORD relented from this. |This will not happen, either,| said the Lord GOD. The LORD relented concerning this: “This also shall not be,” said the Lord GOD. So the LORD relented. “This will not happen either,” the Sovereign LORD said.
7 This is what he showed me: Look! The Lord was standing upon a wall that stood straight and true, with a plumb line in his hand. This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand.
8 And the LORD was asking me, |What do you see, Amos?| I replied, |A plumb line.| So the Lord said, |Look, I have set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will no longer spare them. And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them; And the LORD asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
9 Isaac's high places will be destroyed, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined. I will rise in opposition to the house of Jeroboam with my sword.| 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.” “The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.”
10 So Amaziah priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel. It said, |Amos has been conspiring against you in the very heart of the house of Israel! The land cannot bear everything he has to say, 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. Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
11 because Amos is saying this: 'By the sword will Jeroboam die, and Israel will surely go into exile far from her homeland.'| For thus Amos has said, “‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.’” For this is what Amos is saying: “’Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.’”
12 So Amaziah kept saying to Amos, |Get out of here, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Live there and prophesy there. And Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there, Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.
13 Don't prophesy anymore at Bethel, because it's the king's sanctuary and a temple of the kingdom.| but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.” Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.”
14 Amos replied in answer to Amaziah, |I am no prophet, nor am I a prophet's son, for I have been shepherding and picking the fruit of sycamore trees. Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs. Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.
15 But the LORD took me from tending the flock and the LORD kept saying to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' But the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ But the LORD took me from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
16 |Very well then, hear this message from the LORD: 'You are saying, |Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac.| Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. “You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’ Now then, hear the word of the LORD. You say, “’Do not prophesy against Israel, and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.’
17 Therefore this is what the LORD says: |Your wife will become a whore in the city, and your sons and daughters will die by the sword. Your land will be divided and apportioned, and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will surely go into exile, far from its homeland.|'| 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 up with a measuring line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’” “Therefore this is what the LORD says: “’Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a pagan country. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.’”
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