Amos

7 Here My Lord Yahweh gave me to see, And lo! he was preparing the locust in the beginning of the shooting up of the after-grass,—and lo! after-grass cometh after the mowings for the king.

2 And it came to pass when they had made an end of eating the herbage of the land that I said—Oh My Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beseech thee: By whom shall Jacob arise? For small he is.

3 Grieved was Yahweh over this,—It shall not be, Said Yahweh.

4 Here My Lord Yahweh gave me to see, And lo! My Lord Yahweh proclaiming that the controversy should be settled by fire,—which having devoured the mighty roaring deep should devour the inheritance.

5 Then said I, My Lord Yahweh, forbear, I beseech thee, By whom shall Jacob arise? For small he is.

6 Grieved was Yahweh over this,—Even this shall not be, Said My Lord Yahweh.

7 Here he gave me to see, And lo! My Lord stationed upon a pinnacle,—and in his hand a plummet.

8 And Yahweh said unto me, What canst thou see, Amos? And I said, A plummet,—Then said My Lord, Behold me! fixing a plummet in the midst of my people Israel, I will not again any more forgive him.

9 So shall the high places of Isaac be made desolate, And the holy places of Israel be laid waste,—And I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

10 Then sent Amaziah the priest of Bethel unto Jeroboam king of Israel saying: A conspiracy hath Amos raised against thee in the midst of the house of Israel, The land is not able to endure all his words;

11 For thus saith Amos, By the sword shall Jeroboam die,—And Israel shall surely be exiled from off his own soil.

12 Then said Amaziah unto Amos, O seer, go flee thee away unto the land of Judah,—And eat there bread, And there mayest thou prophesy;

13 But at Bethel not again, any more mayest thou prophesy,—For the holy place of the king it is, And the house of the kingdom it is.

14 Then answered Amos and said unto Amaziah, No prophet was I,—Nor the son of a prophet was I,—But a herdman was I And a preparer of sycamore fruit;

15 But Yahweh took me away from following the flock,—and Yahweh said unto me, Go prophesy against my people Israel.

16 Now therefore hear thou the word of Yahweh,—Thou art saying, Thou must not prophesy concerning Israel, Nor let thy word drop down upon the house of Isaac.

17 Therefore—Thus saith Yahweh, Thy wife in the city will commit unchastity And thy sons and thy daughters by the sword shall fall, And thine own soil by line shall be apportioned,—And thou on a polluted soil shalt die, And Israel shall surely go into exile away from his own soil.