Am 7:1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed
grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo,
it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
Am 7:2 And 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: by whom shall
Jacob arise? for he is small.
Am 7:3 The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord.
Am 7:4 Thus 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.
Am 7:5 Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob
arise? for he is small.
Am 7:6 The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.
Am 7:7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a
plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
Am 7:8 And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline.
Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people
Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:
Am 7:9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of
Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with
the sword.
Am 7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel,
saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel:
the land is not able to bear all his words.
Am 7:11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall
surely be led away captive out of their own land.
Am 7:12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the
land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
Am 7:13 But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel,
and it is the king's court.
Am 7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I
a prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
Am 7:15 And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me,
Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
Am 7:16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not
against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
Am 7:17 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city,
and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be
divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely
go into captivity forth of his land.