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7:1  This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (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 beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!’
7:3  The Lord relented concerning this; ‘It shall not be,’ said the Lord.
7:4  This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
7:5  Then I said, ‘O Lord God, cease, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!’
7:6  The Lord relented concerning this; ‘This also shall not be,’ said the Lord God.
7:7  This is what he showed me: 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, ‘See, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass them by;
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 Jeroboam with the sword.’
7:10  Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, ‘Amos has conspired against you in the very centre of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.
7:11  For thus Amos has said, “Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.”’
7:12  And Amaziah said to Amos, ‘O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, earn your 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 Amaziah, ‘I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore 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 become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parcelled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.”’