 1 The Lord God made me see this: And behold, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the late grass. Even behold, the late grass after the king's mowings. 2 When it stopped eating the tender plant of the land, then I said, O Lord God, I beseech you to forgive. How can Jacob stand? For he is small. 3 The Lord relented+ for this. It will not be, says the Lord. 4 The Lord God made me see this: Indeed+ the Lord God was calling to contend by fire and it consumed the great deep and it was devouring part of it. 5 Then I said, O Lord God, I ask you to cease. How can Jacob stand? For he is small. 6 The Lord relented+ for this. This also will not be, says the Lord God. 7 He made me see this: Indeed+, the Lord was standing by the plumbline wall with a plumbline in His hand. 8 The Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? I said, A plumbline. Then the Lord said, See, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. 9 The high places of Isaac will be wasted and the holy places of Israel will be laid waste. I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to King Jeroboam of Israel saying, Amos has plotted against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. 11 For so Amos says: Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile out of his land. 12 Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go, flee for yourself into the land of Judah. And eat bread there, and prophesy there. 13 But do not prophesy again any more at Bethel. For it is the king's temple, and it is the king's royal house. 14 Then Amos said to Amaziah: I was no prophet, nor was I a prophet's son. But I was a herdsman and a gatherer from sycamore trees. 15 The Lord took me from behind the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel. 16 Now then hear the Word of the Lord. You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop words against the house of Isaac. 17 So the Lord says this: Your wife will be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided by line. And you will die in a defiled land. And Israel will surely go into exile out of his land.
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