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7:1  Thus the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
7:2  When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, “O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”
7:3  The Lord repented concerning this; “It shall not be,” said the Lord.
7:4  Thus the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
7:5  Then I said, “O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”
7:6  The Lord repented concerning this; “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
7:7  He showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with 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 am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;
7:9  the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jerobo′am with the sword.”
7:10  Then Amazi′ah the priest of Bethel sent to Jerobo′am 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 thus Amos has said, ‘Jerobo′am shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.’”
7:12  And Amazi′ah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there;
7:13  but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”
7:14  Then Amos answered Amazi′ah, “I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,
7:15  and the Lord took me from following 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 preach 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 parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”