{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/amo007.htm","path":"bib/jps/amo007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/amo007.htm","text":"7:1 Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, He formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.\n7:2 And if it had come to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land--so I said: O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.\n7:3 the Lord repented concerning this; 'It shall not be', saith the Lord.\n7:4 Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.\n7:5 Then said I: O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.\n7:6 the Lord repented concerning this; 'This also shall not be', saith the Lord GOD.\n7:7 Thus He showed me; and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in His hand.\n7:8 And the Lord said unto me: 'Amos, what seest thou?' And I said: 'A plumbline.' Then said the Lord: Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of My people Israel; I will not again pardon them any more;\n7:9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.\n7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: 'Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.\n7:11 For thus Amos saith: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'\n7:12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos: 'O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there;\n7:13 but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.'\n7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees;\n7:15 and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said unto me: Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.\n7:16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest: Prophesy not against Israel, and preach not against the house of Isaac;\n7:17 Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou thyself shalt die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'","title":"Jewish Publication Society Bible: Amos: Amos Chapter 7","type":"page"}