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¹ Thus the Lord 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.² And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord Yahweh, forgive, I urge you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.³ Yahweh repented concerning this: It shall not be, says Yahweh.⁴ Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and, look, the Lord Yahweh called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.⁵ Then I said, O Lord Yahweh, cease, I urge you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.⁶ Yahweh repented concerning this: this also shall not be, says the Lord Yahweh.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.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;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 has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.¹¹ For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.¹² Also Amaziah said to Amos, O you seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there:¹³ but don't prophesy again anymore at Beth-el; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.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:¹⁵ and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.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;¹⁷ therefore thus says Yahweh: Your wife shall 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.