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¹ THUS has the LORD God showed me: behold, a plague of locusts coming up in the beginning of springing up of the latter growth; and, 1o, it was the latter growth after the kings mowings.² And it came to pass when they had finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, O LORD God, forgive. Who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in numbers.³ Then the LORD averted this calamity: it shall not be.⁴ Thus has the LORD God showed me: and, behold, the LORD God called the people to judge them by fire, and it devoured the great deep and did eat up a part.⁵ Then I said, O LORD God, forgive. Who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in numbers.⁶ The LORD averted this calamity; this also shall not be.⁷ Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD was standing upon a wall made of adamant, and a plumbline was in his hand.⁸ And the LORD said to me, Amos, what do you see? 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 absurd shrines of Israel shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries 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 has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel, and the land cannot bear all his words.¹¹ For thus Amos is saying: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be carried away captive out of their own land.¹² Also Amaziah said to Amos, O you seer, go, flee 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 kings sanctuary and it is the house of the kingdom.¹⁴ Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I am not a prophet, neither a prophets son; but I was a shepherd and a gatherer of wild figs;¹⁵ And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy against my people Israel.¹⁶ Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say, Do not prophesy against the house of Israel and do not teach against the house of Isaac.¹⁷ Therefore thus says the LORD: Your wife shall play the harlot in your own 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 polluted land; and Israel shall surely be carried away captive from his land.