Book of Amos, Chapter 7
Amos 7 RSV - Revised Standard VersionChapter 7 of Amos—Revised Standard Version (RSV)
- ¶ Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
- When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,
¶ “O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!” - ¶ The LORD repented concerning this;
¶ “It shall not be,” said the LORD. - ¶ Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
- Then I said,
¶ “O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!” - ¶ The LORD repented concerning this;
¶ “This also shall not be,” said the Lord GOD. - ¶ He showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
- And the LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,
¶ “Behold, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them; - the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against the house of Jerobo′am with the sword.” - ¶ Then Amazi′ah the priest of Bethel sent to Jerobo′am 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.
- For thus Amos has said,
¶ ‘Jerobo′am shall die by the sword,
and Israel must go into exile
away from his land.’” - ¶ And Amazi′ah said to Amos, “O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there;
- but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”
- ¶ Then Amos answered Amazi′ah, “I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son;[a] but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,
- and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
- “Now therefore hear the word of the LORD.
¶ You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’ - ¶ Therefore thus says the LORD:
¶ ‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city,
and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be parceled out by line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’”
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Or one of the sons of the prophets
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