7:1 Thus the Sovereign Yahweh showed me: and, look, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, look, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
7:2 And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Sovereign Yahweh, forgive, I urge you: how will Jacob stand? For he is small.
7:3 Yahweh repented concerning this: It will not be, says Yahweh.
7:4 Thus the Sovereign Yahweh showed me: and, look, the Sovereign Yahweh called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.
7:5 Then I said, O Sovereign Yahweh, cease, I urge you: how will Jacob stand? For he is small.
7:6 Yahweh repented concerning this: this also will not be, says the Sovereign Yahweh.
7:7 Thus he showed me: and, look, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.
7:8 And Yahweh said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Look, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them anymore;
7:9 and the high places of Isaac will be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el 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.
7:11 For thus Amos says, Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely be led away captive out of his land.
7:12 Also Amaziah said to Amos, O you seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there:
7:13 but don't prophesy again anymore at Beth-el; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.
7:14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees:
7:15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.
7:16 Now therefore hear the word of Yahweh: You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't drop [your word] against the house of Isaac;
7:17 therefore thus says Yahweh: Your wife will prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided by line; and you yourself will die in a land that is unclean, and Israel will surely be led away captive out of his land.