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Warning through Visions

¹ This is what the Lord ^(F1)GOD showed me, and behold, He was forming a ^(C1)swarm of locusts ^(F2)when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king's mowing.² And it came about, ^(F1)when it had ^(C1)finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,

"^(C2)Lord GOD, please pardon!
How can Jacob stand?
For he is ^(C3)small."

³ The LORD ^(C1)relented of this.
"It shall not be," said the LORD.

⁴ So the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, the Lord GOD was calling to contend with them by ^(C1)fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the ^(F1)farmland.⁵ Then I said,

"^(C1)Lord GOD, please stop!
^(C2)How can Jacob stand?
For he is small."

⁶ The LORD ^(C1)relented of this.
"This too shall not be," said the Lord GOD.

⁷ So He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing ^(F1)by a ^(F2)vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.⁸ And the LORD said to me, "^(C1)What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said,

"Behold I am about to put a ^(C2)plumb line
In the midst of My people Israel.
I will not ^(F1)(C3)spare them any longer.

⁹ "The ^(C1)high places of Isaac will become deserted,
And the ^(C2)sanctuaries of Israel will be in ruins.
Then I will ^(C3)rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."

Amos Accused; Gives an Answer

¹⁰ Then Amaziah, the ^(C1)priest of Bethel, sent word to ^(C2)Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has ^(C3)conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words.¹¹ "For this is what Amos says: 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'"¹² Then Amaziah said to Amos, "^(C1)Go, you seer, flee to the land of Judah; and eat bread there and do your prophesying there!¹³ "But ^(C1)do not prophesy at Bethel any longer, for it is a ^(C2)sanctuary of the king and a royal ^(F1)residence."

¹⁴ Then Amos replied to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet, nor am I the ^(C1)son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a ^(F1)grower of sycamore figs.¹⁵ "But the LORD took me from ^(F1)following the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go ^(C1)prophesy to My people Israel.'¹⁶ "So now hear the word of the LORD: you are saying, 'You ^(C1)shall not prophesy against Israel ^(C2)nor shall you ^(F1)prophesy against the house of Isaac.'¹⁷ "Therefore, this is what the LORD says: 'Your ^(C1)wife will become a prostitute in the city, your ^(C2)sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line, and you yourself will die ^(F1)upon ^(C3)unclean soil. Furthermore Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'"