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7:1  This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a plague of locusts when the latter growth was beginning to sprout up, the latter growth after the king’s reaping.
7:2  When they had finished devouring the foliage of the land, I said, “O Lord God, please forgive. How can Jacob survive? For he is 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 judgment by fire. It was consuming the great deep and was devouring the fields.
7:5  I said, “O Lord God, please stop. How can Jacob survive? For he is 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 by a wall made using a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.
7:8  The Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “See, I am putting a plumb line in the midst of My people Israel. I will forgive them no more.
7:9  The high places of Isaac will be destroyed, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
7:10  Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you at the very center of the house of Israel. The country cannot endure all his words.
7:11  For this is what Amos said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely be exiled away from its land.’ ”
7:12  So Amaziah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee back to the land of Judah. Earn your sustenance there, and prophesy there.
7:13  But do not prophesy any more at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.”
7:14  But Amos answered Amaziah: “I am no prophet, and I am no prophet’s disciple. Rather, I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees.
7:15  But the Lord took me away from 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 will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided by measuring line; you yourself will die in an unclean land; and Israel will surely go into exile away from its land.’ ”