Amos 7

7^aThus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed ^||bgrasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s ^cmowings. ²And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said,

O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee:

^||dBy whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

^3eThe Lord repented for this:

It shall not be, saith the Lord.

^4aThus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. ⁵Then said I,

O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee:

^||dBy whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

^6eThe Lord repented for this:

This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.

^7aThus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, ^fwith a plumbline in his hand. ⁸And the Lord said unto me, ^eeAmos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord,

Behold, ^fI will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel:

^gI will not again pass by them any more:

⁹And ^†the high places of Isaac shall be desolate,

And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste;

And I will rise against ^hthe house of Jeroboam with the sword.

¹⁰Then Amaziah ⁱthe priest of ^kBeth-el sent to ^lJeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath ^mconspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able ⁿto bear all his words. ¹¹For thus Amos saith, ^hJeroboam shall die by the sword, and ^oIsrael shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.

¹²Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou ^pseer, go, flee thee away ^qinto the land of Judah, and there ^reat bread, and prophesy there: ¹³But ^sprophesy not again any more at ^kBeth-el: ^tfor it is the king’s ^||uchapel, and it is the ^†king’s court. ¹⁴Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, ^vI was no prophet, neither was I ^wa prophet’s son; but ^vI ^xwas an herdman, and a gatherer of ^||ysycomore fruit: ¹⁵And the Lord took me ^†as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

¹⁶Now therefore ^yyhear thou the word of the Lord:

Thou sayest, ^sProphesy not against Israel,

And ^zdrop not thy word against the house of ^aIsaac.

^17bTherefore thus saith the Lord;

^cThy wife shall be an harlot in the city,

And thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword,

And thy land ^dshall be divided by line;

And thou shalt die in ^ea polluted land:

And ^fIsrael shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.