Amos 7:1-17 NASB20 - Bible AI

¹This is what the Lord [74]GOD showed me, and behold, He was forming a swarm of locusts [75]when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s mowing.

²And it came about, [76]when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,

²“Lord GOD, please pardon! How can Jacob stand? For he is small.”

³The LORD relented of this. “It shall not be,” said the LORD.

⁴So the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, the Lord GOD was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the [77]farmland.

⁵Then I said,

⁵“Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand? For he is small.”

⁶The LORD relented of this. “This too shall not be,” said the Lord GOD.

⁷So He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing [78]by a [79]vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.

⁸And the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

⁸“Behold I am about to put a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel. I will not [80]spare them any longer.

⁹The high places of Isaac will become deserted, And the sanctuaries of Israel will be in ruins. Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Amos Accused; Gives an Answer

¹⁰Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words.

¹¹For this is what Amos says: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’ ”

¹²Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Go, you seer, flee to the land of Judah; and eat bread there and do your prophesying there!

¹³But do not prophesy at Bethel any longer, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal [81]residence.”

¹⁴Then Amos replied to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a [82]grower of sycamore figs.

¹⁵But the LORD took me from [83]following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go prophesy to My people Israel.’

¹⁶So now hear the word of the LORD: you are saying, ‘You shall not prophesy against Israel nor shall you [84]prophesy against the house of Isaac.’

¹⁷Therefore, this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line, and you yourself will die [85]upon unclean soil. Furthermore Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’ ”