Amos 7:12-15 ▼

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 house.”

14 Then 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.

15 But Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go prophesy to My people Israel.’