Amos 7
1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting 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 beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
4 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
5 Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
6 The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
7 Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline 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 Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
11 For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.
12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
13 But prophesy not again any more at Beth-el: 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 an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
15 And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.
16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.
Cross-references
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- 1Jol 1:4, Amo 8:1, Jol 2:25, Nam 3:15–17, Isa 33:4, Amo 4:9, Jer 24:1, Jer 1:11–16
- 2Isa 37:4, Ezk 11:13, Jer 14:7, Ezk 9:8, Jer 42:2, Jer 14:20–21, Exo 10:15, Dan 9:19
- 3Deu 32:36, Jon 3:10, Hos 11:8, Psa 106:45, Jol 2:14, Amo 7:6, Jer 26:19, Jas 5:16
- 4Amo 7:1, Isa 66:15–16, Exo 9:23–24, Heb 1:7, Jer 21:12, Amo 4:11, Isa 27:4, Amo 1:4
- 5Psa 85:4, Jol 2:17, Amo 7:2–3, Isa 1:9, Jer 30:19, Isa 10:25
- 6Jon 4:2, Psa 135:14, Jon 3:10, Jdg 10:16, Amo 7:3, Jer 26:19, Jdg 2:18, Psa 90:13
- 72Ki 21:13, Isa 28:17, Rev 21:15, Zec 2:1–2, Isa 34:11, Rev 11:1, 2Sa 8:2, Lam 2:8
- 8Amo 8:2, Lam 2:8, Jer 15:6, Ezk 7:2–9, Isa 28:17, 2Ki 21:13, Mic 7:18, Nam 1:8–9
- 92Ki 15:8–10, Gen 46:1, Amo 3:14, Gen 26:23–25, Lev 26:30–31, Hos 10:8, Amo 5:5, Amo 8:14
- 10Jer 38:4, 1Ki 12:31–32, Mat 21:23, Act 24:5, Jer 26:8–11, Luk 23:2, 1Ki 13:33, Act 5:28
- 112Ki 17:6, Amo 6:7–8, Psa 56:5, Amo 7:9, Mat 26:61, Jer 28:10–11, Act 6:14
- 12Mat 8:34, 1Co 2:14, Rom 16:18, Isa 30:10, 1Sa 9:9, Ezk 13:19, 2Ch 16:10, Act 16:39
- 13Amo 2:12, 1Ki 12:32, 1Ki 12:29, 1Ki 13:1, Act 5:28, Act 5:40, Act 4:17–18
- 14Amo 1:1, Zec 13:5, 2Ki 2:5, 1Co 1:27, 2Ki 4:38, 2Ki 2:3, 2Ch 19:2, 2Ki 6:1
- 152Sa 7:8, Ezk 2:3–4, Act 1:8, Jer 1:7, Act 5:20, Psa 78:70–72, Mat 4:18–19, Mat 9:9
- 16Ezk 20:46, Mic 2:6, Ezk 21:2, Amo 7:13, Deu 32:2, Jer 28:15–17, 1Ki 22:19, 1Sa 15:16
- 17Hos 9:3, 2Ki 17:6, Jer 28:16, Ezk 4:13, Hos 4:13–14, Jer 29:21, Jer 29:31–32, Isa 13:16