This is what the Lord GOD showed me ... : He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest , as the late spring crop ... was coming up - -.
And when the locusts had eaten - every green plant in the land , I said , “ Lord GOD , please forgive ! How will Jacob survive , since he is so small ? ”
So the LORD relented from this (plan). “ It will not happen , ” (He) said.
This is what the Lord GOD showed me ... : The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed - the great deep and devoured - the land.
Then I said , “ Lord GOD , please stop ! How will Jacob survive , since he is so small ? ”
So the LORD relented from this (plan). “ It will not happen either , ” said the Lord GOD.
This is what He showed me : Behold , the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb , with a plumb line in His hand.
“ Amos - , what do you see ? ” asked the LORD. ... “ A plumb line , ” I replied. “ Behold , ” said the Lord , “ I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel ; I will no longer ... spare
The high places of Isaac will be deserted , and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste ; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword. ”
Then Amaziah the priest vvv 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 cannot ... bear - all his words ,
for this is what Amos - has said : ‘ Jeroboam will die by the sword , and Israel will surely go into exile , away from their homeland. ’”
And Amaziah said to Amos - , “ Go away , you seer ! Flee to the land of Judah ; earn your bread ... there and do your prophesying there.
But never prophesy vvv at Bethel again ... , because it (is) the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom . ”
“ I ... was not a prophet , ” Amos - replied - , “ (nor was I) the son of a prophet ; rather , I was a herdsman (and) a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me , ... ‘ Go , prophesy to My people Israel. ’
Now, therefore , hear the word of the LORD. You say : ‘ Do not prophesy against Israel ; do not preach against the house of Isaac. ’
Therefore this is what the LORD says : ‘ Your wife will become a prostitute in the city , and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line , and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile , away from their homeland. ’”