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7:1  This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming a swarm of locusts after the king’s share had been harvested and the second growth was beginning to sprout.
7:2  When the locusts had finished eating all the grass in the land, I said: Lord God, forgive, I beg you. Jacob is so small; how can he survive?
7:3  Thereupon the Lord relented. “This shall not happen,” said the Lord God.
7:4  This is what the Lord God then showed me: the Lord God was summoning a fire of judgment to devour the great abyss and to consume the land.
7:5  I said: Lord God, cease, I beg you. Jacob is so small; how can he survive?
7:6  Thereupon the Lord relented. “This also shall not happen,” said the Lord God.
7:7  Then the Lord showed me this: he was standing by a wall, with a plumb line in his hand.
7:8  The Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said: Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; never again will I forgive their offenses.
7:9  The high places of Isaac shall be laid waste, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be left desolate; with sword in hand I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.
7:10  Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent the following message to Jeroboam, the king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you here in the heart of the house of Israel, and the country cannot tolerate his message.
7:11  For this is what Amos is saying: “ ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and the Israelites will be taken into captivity, far away from their native land.’ ”
7:12  To Amos himself Amaziah said, “Go, O seer, and flee to the land of Judah. There you can prophesy and earn your living.
7:13  But never again prophesy at Bethel, for this is the king’s sanctuary and a royal shrine.”
7:14  Amos replied to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, nor a prophet’s son. I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamore-fig trees.
7:15  But the Lord took me away from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go forth and prophesy to my people Israel.’
7:16  So now, listen to the word of the Lord. You tell me that I am not to prophesy against Israel or to preach against the house of Isaac.
7:17  Therefore, thus says the Lord: “ ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be parceled out by a measuring line; you yourself will die in a pagan country, and Israel will be deported in captivity far from its native land.’ ”