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7:1  This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: he was preparing swarms of locusts after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up.
7:2  When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, ‘Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!’
7:3  So the Lord relented. ‘This will not happen,’ the Lord said.
7:4  This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: the Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.
7:5  Then I cried out, ‘Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!’
7:6  So the Lord relented. ‘This will not happen either,’ the Sovereign Lord said.
7:7  This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb-line in his hand.
7:8  And the Lord asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos?’ ‘A plumb-line,’ I replied. Then the Lord said, ‘Look, I am setting a plumb-line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
7:9  ‘The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.’
7:10  Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: ‘Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
7:11  For this is what Amos is saying: ‘“Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.”’
7:12  Then Amaziah said to Amos, ‘Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.
7:13  Don’t prophesy any more at Bethel, because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom.’
7:14  Amos answered Amaziah, ‘I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.
7:15  But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, “Go, prophesy to my people Israel.”
7:16  Now then, hear the word of the Lord. You say, ‘“Do not prophesy against Israel, and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.”
7:17  ‘Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘“Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a pagan country. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.”’