rsv Amos:7:14-17
rsv@Amos:7:14 @ Then Amos answered Amazi'ah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,
rsv@Amos:7:15 @ and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, `Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
rsv@Amos:7:16 @ "Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. You say, `Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'
rsv@Amos:7:17 @ Therefore thus says the LORD: `Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.'"