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7:1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king�s harvest.
7:2 It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, �Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.�
7:3 Yahweh relented concerning this. �It shall not be,� says Yahweh.
7:4 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
7:5 Then I said, �Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.�
7:6 Yahweh relented concerning this. �This also shall not be,� says the Lord Yahweh.
7:7 Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
7:8 Yahweh said to me, �Amos, what do you see?� I said, �A plumb line.� Then the Lord said, �Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
7:9 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.�
7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, �Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
7:11 For Amos says, �Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.��
7:12 Amaziah also said to Amos, �You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
7:13 but don�t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king�s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!�
7:14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, �I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet�s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
7:15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, �Go, prophesy to my people Israel.�
7:16 Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: �You say, Don�t prophesy against Israel, and don�t preach against the house of Isaac.�
7:17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: �Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.��