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Amos 7 New King James Version (NKJV)

Vision of the Locusts

7 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the ^[a]beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings. ²And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:

“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!
^(A)Oh,^[b] that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”
³So ^(B)the Lord relented concerning this.
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

Vision of the Fire

⁴Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called ^[c]for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the ^[d]territory. ⁵Then I said:

“O Lord God, cease, I pray!
^(C)Oh, that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”
⁶So the Lord relented concerning this.
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

Vision of the Plumb Line

⁷Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. ⁸And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”

And I said, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said:

“Behold, ^(D)I am setting a plumb line
In the midst of My people Israel;
^(E)I will not pass by them anymore.
⁹^(F)The ^[e]high places of Isaac shall be desolate,
And the ^[f]sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.
^(G)I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam.”

Amaziah’s Complaint

¹⁰Then Amaziah the ^(H)priest of ^(I)Bethel sent to ^(J)Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to ^[g]bear all his words. ¹¹For thus Amos has said:

‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
And Israel shall surely be led away ^(K)captive
From their own land.’ ”

¹²Then Amaziah said to Amos:

“Go, you seer!
Flee to the land of Judah.
There eat bread,
And there prophesy.
¹³But ^(L)never again prophesy at Bethel,
^(M)For it is the king’s ^[h]sanctuary,
And it is the royal ^[i]residence.”

¹⁴Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah:

“I was no prophet,
Nor was I ^(N)a son of a prophet,
But I was a ^(O)sheepbreeder
And a tender of sycamore fruit.
¹⁵Then the Lord took me ^[j]as I followed the flock,
And the Lord said to me,
‘Go, ^(P)prophesy to My people Israel.’
¹⁶Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord:
You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
And ^(Q)do not ^[k]spout against the house of Isaac.’

¹⁷“Therefore^(R) thus says the Lord:

^(S)‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city;
Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword;
Your land shall be divided by survey line;
You shall die in a ^(T)defiled land;
And Israel shall surely be led away captive
From his own land.’ ”

New King James Version (NKJV)