Amos 7

1Thus has the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2And it came to pass, when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he small. 3The Yahuah repented for this: It shall not be, says the Yahuah. 4Thus has the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. 5Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he small. 6The Yahuah repented for this: This also shall not be, says the Lord GOD. 7Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. 8And the Yahuah said unto me, Amos, what seest you? 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 pass by them any more: 9And 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. 10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. 11For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land. 12Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O you seer, go, flee you away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: 13But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it the king's chapel, and it the king's court. 14Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I no prophet, neither I a prophet's son; but I an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: 15And the Yahuah took me as I followed the flock, and the Yahuah said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. 16Now therefore hear you the word of the Yahuah: you sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not against the house of Isaac. 17Therefore thus says the Yahuah; your wife shall be an harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.