AFV2020 - Amos - 7

7:1  The Lord GOD made me see this: And behold, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the growth of the late grass—even behold, the late grass after the king's mowings.

7:2  And it came to pass that when they had made an end of eating the tender plant of the land, then I said, "O Lord GOD, 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 GOD made me see this: And behold, the Lord GOD 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 GOD, 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 GOD.

7:7  He made me see this: And behold, the LORD was standing upon a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.

7:8  And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And 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  And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the holy places of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise up 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 thus 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 shepherd and a gatherer of fruit 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 therefore 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  Therefore thus says the LORD, '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.' ”