Amos 7:1 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.
Amos 7:2 When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, 'Sovereign LORD, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!'
Amos 7:3 So the LORD relented. 'This will not happen,' the LORD said.
Amos 7:4 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.
Amos 7:5 Then I cried out, 'Sovereign LORD, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!'
Amos 7:6 So the LORD relented. 'This will not happen either,' the Sovereign LORD said.
Amos 7:7 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.
Amos 7:8 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.
Amos 7:9 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.'
Amos 7:10 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.
Amos 7:11 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.''
Amos 7:12 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.
Amos 7:13 Don't prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king's sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.'
Amos 7:14 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.
Amos 7:15 But the LORD took me from tending the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
Amos 7:16 Now then, hear the word of the LORD. You say, ''Do not prophesy against Israel, and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.'
Amos 7:17 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.