nsb - Amos:7

nsb@Amos:7:1 @ This is what the Lord Jehovah showed me: Behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the sprouting of the second crop. It was the later growth after the kings mowing.

nsb@Amos:7:2 @ It happened when they quit eating the grass of the land. I said, »O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I entreat you: how shall Jacob stand? Since he is so small.«

nsb@Amos:7:3 @ Jehovah changed his mind about this. »It will not be,« said Jehovah.

nsb@Amos:7:4 @ The Lord Jehovah showed me and, behold, the Lord Jehovah called for judgement by fire and it devoured the great deep. It would have eaten up the land.

nsb@Amos:7:5 @ Then I said, »O Lord Jehovah, cease, I plead with you: how can Jacob stand? After all he is small.«

nsb@Amos:7:6 @ Jehovah changed his mind concerning this: »This also will not be,« said the Lord Jehovah.

nsb@Amos:7:7 @ He showed me: and, behold, Jehovah stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

nsb@Amos:7:8 @ And Jehovah asked me, »Amos, what do you see?« I said: »A plumb line.« Then Jehovah said: »Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not spare them any more.

nsb@Amos:7:9 @ »The high places of Isaac will be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste. I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.«

nsb@Amos:7:10 @ Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel 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.«

nsb@Amos:7:11 @ Amos said: »Jeroboam will die by the sword. Israel will surely be led away captive out of his land.«

nsb@Amos:7:12 @ Amaziah said to Amos: »Go, run away, you seer. Go into the land of Judah. Eat bread and prophesy there.

nsb@Amos:7:13 @ »Do not prophesy any more at Bethel for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.«

nsb@Amos:7:14 @ Amos told Amaziah, »I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son. I was a herdsman, and a grower of sycamore figs.

nsb@Amos:7:15 @ »Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said to me: Go prophesy to my people Israel.«

nsb@Amos:7:16 @ Now hear the word of Jehovah: »You say, do not prophesy against Israel, and do not speak against the house of Isaac.«

nsb@Amos:7:17 @ Jehovah proclaims: »Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by measuring line. You will die in a land that is unclean. Israel will surely be led away captive out of his land.«