Amos Chapter 7

• Amos 7:1
  Amos.
• Amos 7:2
  Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth ...
• Amos 7:3
  When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
• Amos 7:4
  The LORD relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says the LORD.
• Amos 7:5
  Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
• Amos 7:6
  Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
• Amos 7:7
  The LORD relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord GOD.
• Amos 7:8
  Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
• Amos 7:9
  The LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people ...
• Amos 7:10
  The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword....
• Amos 7:11
  Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The l...
• Amos 7:12
  For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
• Amos 7:13
  Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there,
• Amos 7:14
  but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
• Amos 7:15
  Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
• Amos 7:16
  and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
• Amos 7:17
  Now therefore listen to the LORD’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’
• Amos 7:18
  Therefore the LORD says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall b...