Amos 7

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¹This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up. ✦ ²And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?” ✦ ³So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said. ✦ ⁴This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land. ✦ ⁵Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?” ✦ ⁶So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD. ✦ ⁷This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand. ✦ ⁸“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them: ✦ ⁹The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.” ✦ ¹⁰Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words, ✦ ¹¹for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’” ✦ ¹²And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. ✦ ¹³But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.” ✦ ¹⁴“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees. ✦ ¹⁵But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’ ✦ ¹⁶Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.’ ✦ ¹⁷Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘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 a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Amos 7 ·11 Acts 5 ·5 Jer 26 ·4 Jer 29 ·4 Joel 2 ·4 Jer 28 ·4 Amos 1 ·3 2 Kgs 2 ·3

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Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.

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