Amos, Chapter 7

1. Thus has the Lord GOD shown me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the springing up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.    2. And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I plead with you: by whom shall Jacob rise up again? for he is small.    3. The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, says the LORD.    4. Thus has the Lord GOD shown me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called for fire to dispute with them, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part of them.    5. Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I plead with you: by whom shall Jacob rise up again? for he is small.    6. The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, says the Lord GOD.    7. Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.    8. And the LORD said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumb line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:    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.    10. Then 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.    11. For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.    12. Also Amaziah said to Amos, O you seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:    13. But do not prophesy again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.    14. Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:    15. And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.    16. Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not let your word fall against the house of Isaac.    17. 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 divided by line; and you shall die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity out of his land.