Amos 7

1Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.Cross-references: Ex 10:12 · Isa 33:4 · Jer 1:11 · Jer 24:1 · Ezek 11:25 · Joel 1:4 · +7 more

2When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”Cross-references: Ex 10:15 · Ex 32:11 · Ex 34:9 · Num 14:17 · Ps 12:1 · Ps 44:24 · +12 more

3Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 32:36 · 1Chr 21:15 · Ps 106:45 · Jer 26:19 · Hos 11:8 · Joel 2:14 · +3 more

4Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.Cross-references: Ex 9:23 · Lev 10:2 · Num 16:35 · Deut 32:22 · Isa 27:4 · Isa 66:15 · +13 more

5Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”Cross-references: Ps 85:4 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 10:25 · Jer 30:19 · Joel 2:17 · Amos 7:2

6Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Judg 2:18 · Judg 10:16 · Ps 90:13 · Ps 135:14 · Jer 26:19 · Amos 7:3 · +2 more

7Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.Cross-references: 2Sam 8:2 · 2Ki 21:13 · Isa 28:17 · Isa 34:11 · Lam 2:8 · Ezek 40:3 · +3 more

8Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:13 · Isa 28:17 · Jer 1:11 · Jer 15:6 · Lam 2:8 · Ezek 7:2 · +4 more

9The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”Cross-references: Gen 26:23 · Gen 46:1 · Lev 26:30 · 2Ki 15:8 · Isa 63:18 · Hos 10:8 · +3 more

10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.Cross-references: Gen 37:8 · 1Ki 12:31 · 1Ki 13:33 · 1Ki 18:17 · 2Ki 14:23 · 2Chr 13:8 · +11 more

11For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”Cross-references: 2Ki 17:6 · Ps 56:5 · Jer 26:9 · Jer 28:10 · Amos 6:7 · Amos 7:9 · +2 more

12Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there,Cross-references: 1Sam 2:36 · 1Sam 9:9 · 2Chr 16:10 · Isa 30:10 · Isa 56:11 · Ezek 13:19 · +9 more

13but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”Cross-references: 1Ki 12:29 · 1Ki 12:32 · 1Ki 13:1 · Amos 2:12 · Acts 4:17 · Acts 5:28 · +1 more

14Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;Cross-references: 1Ki 20:35 · 2Ki 2:3 · 2Ki 2:5 · 2Ki 2:7 · 2Ki 4:38 · 2Ki 6:1 · +6 more

15and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’Cross-references: 2Sam 7:8 · Ps 78:70 · Jer 1:7 · Ezek 2:3 · Matt 4:18 · Matt 9:9 · +5 more

16Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’Cross-references: Deut 32:2 · 1Sam 15:16 · 1Ki 22:19 · Isa 30:10 · Jer 28:15 · Ezek 20:46 · +3 more

17Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”Cross-references: Lev 26:33 · 2Ki 17:6 · Ps 78:55 · Isa 13:16 · Jer 20:6 · Jer 28:12 · +11 more