Amos 7:1-13 ▼

1 Thus 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.

2 And 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?|

3 The LORD changed His mind about this. |It shall not be,| said the LORD.

4 Thus 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.

5 Then I said, |Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?|

6 The LORD changed His mind about this. |This too shall not be,| said the Lord GOD.

7 Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.

8 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.

9 |The high places of Isaac will be desolated And the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste. Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.|

10 Then 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.

11 |For thus Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'|

12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, |Go, you seer, flee away to the land of Judah and there eat bread and there do your prophesying!

13 |But no longer prophesy at Bethel, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal residence.|