Amos 7 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ This is what the Master יהוה  showed me, and see, He was forming locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop. And see, it was the late crop after the mowings of the sovereign.

² And it came to be, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said, “O Master יהוה, forgive, I pray! How does Yaʽ

³ יהוה  relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” said יהוה.

⁴ This is what the Master יהוה  showed me, and see, the Master יהוה  was calling to contend by fire, and it consumed the great deep and did consume the portion,

⁵ and I said, “O Master יהוה, please stop! How does Yaʽ

⁶ יהוה  relented concerning this. “This shall not be either,” said the Master יהוה.

⁷ This is what He showed me, and see, יהוה  stood on a wall made with a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in His hand,

⁸ and יהוה  said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb-line.” And יהוה  said, “See, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Yisra’ĕ

⁹ “And the high places of Yitsḥ

¹⁰ Then Amatsyah the priest of Bĕ

¹¹ for this is what Amos said, ‘Yaroḇ

¹² And Amatsyah said to Amos, “Go, you seer! Flee to the land of Yehuḏ

¹³ but do not prophesy any more at Bĕ

¹⁴ And Amos answered and said to Amatsyah, “I am not a prophet, nor am I a son of a prophet, for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs.

¹⁵ “But יהוה  took me from behind the flock, and יהוה  said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Yisra’ĕ

¹⁶ “And now, hear the word of יהוה. You are saying, ‘Do not prophesy against Yisra’ĕ

¹⁷ “Therefore thus said יהוה, ‘Your wife shall become a whore in the city, and your sons and daughters fall by the sword, and your land be divided by a measuring line, and you die in a defiled land, and Yisra’ĕ