Amos 7

1 Thus the Lord GOD 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. ‡ Jol 1:4Amo 8:1Amo 4:9Isa 33:4Jol 2:25Nam 3:15-17Amo 7:4Amo 7:7 +52 When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.” ‡ Isa 37:4Ezk 11:13Exo 10:15Ezk 9:8Jer 14:20-21Jer 14:7Jer 42:2Amo 7:5 +10

3 The LORD relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says the LORD. ‡ Deu 32:36Jon 3:10Hos 11:8Amo 7:6Jol 2:14Psa 106:45Jas 5:16Jer 26:19 +1

4 Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land. ‡ Amo 7:1Isa 66:15-16Amo 1:4Amo 1:7Amo 4:11Amo 5:6Amo 7:7Deu 32:22 +115 Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.” ‡ Psa 85:4Amo 7:2-3Isa 1:9Isa 10:25Jer 30:19Jol 2:17

6 The LORD relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord GOD. ‡ Amo 7:3Jdg 10:16Jdg 2:18Jer 26:19Jon 3:10Jon 4:2Psa 135:14Psa 90:13

7 Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. ‡ 2Ki 21:13Isa 28:17Rev 21:152Sa 8:2Ezk 40:3Isa 34:11Lam 2:8Rev 11:1 +18 The LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” ‡ Amo 8:2Jer 15:6Lam 2:8Ezk 7:2-92Ki 21:13Isa 28:17Mic 7:18Jer 1:11-13 +2

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. 9 The 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.” ‡ 2Ki 15:8-10Gen 46:1Amo 3:14Amo 5:5Amo 8:14Gen 26:23-25Hos 10:8Isa 63:18 +1

10 Then 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. ‡ Jer 38:41Ki 12:31-32Act 24:5Jer 26:8-11Mat 21:231Ki 13:33Act 5:28Luk 23:2 +911 For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’” ‡ 2Ki 17:6Amo 6:7-8Amo 7:9Psa 56:5Act 6:14Jer 28:10-11Mat 26:61Jer 26:9

12 Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there, ‡ 1Co 2:14Mat 8:341Sa 9:9Isa 30:10Rom 16:181Pe 5:21Sa 2:362Ch 16:10 +713 but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!” ‡ 1Ki 12:32Amo 2:121Ki 12:291Ki 13:1Act 4:17-18Act 5:28Act 5:40

14 Then 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; ‡ Amo 1:1Zec 13:51Co 1:272Ki 2:52Ki 4:382Ch 19:22Ki 2:31Ki 20:35 +415 and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’ ‡ 2Sa 7:8Ezk 2:3-4Act 1:8Act 5:20Jer 1:7Mat 4:18-19Mat 9:9Psa 78:70-72 +316 Now therefore listen to the LORD’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’ ‡ Ezk 20:46Ezk 21:2Mic 2:6Amo 7:13Deu 32:2Jer 28:15-171Ki 22:191Sa 15:16 +117 Therefore the LORD 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.’” ‡ Hos 9:32Ki 17:6Ezk 4:13Jer 28:16Hos 4:13-14Amo 7:11Isa 13:16Jer 29:21 +9