The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Amos 07
1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, he
formed locusts in the beginning of
the shooting up of the latter growth; and
behold, it was the latter growth after the
king’s harvest.
2 When they finished eating the grass
of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh,
forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand?
For he is small.”
3 Yahweh relented concerning this. “It
shall not be,” says Yahweh.
4 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, the
Lord Yahweh called for judgment
by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and
would have devoured the land.
5 Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg
you! How could Jacob stand? For he is
small.”
6 Yahweh relented concerning this. “This
also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
7 Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord
stood beside a wall made by a plumb line,
with a plumb line in his hand.
8 Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you
see?” I said, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set
a plumb line in the middle of my people
Israel. I will not again pass by them any
more.
9 The high places of Isaac will be desolate,
the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid
waste; and I will rise against the house of
Jeroboam with the sword.”
10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent
to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos
has conspired against you in the middle of
the house of Israel. The land is not able to
bear all his words.
11 For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by
the sword, and Israel shall surely be led
away captive out of his land.
12 Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer,
go, flee away into the land of Judah, and
there eat bread, and prophesy there,
13 but don’t prophesy again any more at
Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it
is a royal house!”
14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was
no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son,
but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of
sycamore figs;
15 and Yahweh took me from following
the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go,
prophesy to my people Israel.’
16 Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s
word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against
Israel, and don’t preach against the house
of Isaac.’
17 Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife
shall be a prostitute in the city, and your
sons and your daughters shall fall by the
sword, and your land shall be divided by
line; and you yourself shall die in a land
that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be
led away captive out of his land.