MKJV - Amos - 7

7:1  The Lord Jehovah 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.

7:2  And it happened when it had made an end of eating the tender plant of the land, then I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I pray You. How can Jacob stand? For he is small.

7:3  The LORD repented for this; it shall not be, says the LORD.

7:4  The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, the Lord Jehovah was calling to contend by fire. And it consumed the great deep, and it was devouring part of it.

7:5  Then I said, O Lord Jehovah, I pray You, cease. How can Jacob stand? For he is small.

7:6  The LORD repented for this; this also shall not be, says the Lord Jehovah.

7:7  He made me see this: And behold, the Lord was standing by the plumbline-wall, and a plumbline in His hand.

7:8  And the LORD said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumbline. Then the Lord said, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of My people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

7:9  And the high places of Isaac shall be wasted, and the holy places of Israel shall 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 plotted against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

7:11  For so Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely go into exile out of his land.

7:12  And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go, flee for yourself into the land of Judah; and eat bread there, and prophesy there.

7:13  But do not prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's temple, and it is the king's royal house.

7:14  Then Amos answered and 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.

7:15  And the LORD took me from behind the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.

7:16  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.

7:17  So the LORD says this: Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line. And you shall die in a defiled land; and Israel shall surely go into exile out of his land.