5 But as for you, you keep seeking great things for yourself.+ Do not keep on seeking.”’+

“‘For here I am bringing in a calamity upon all flesh,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and I will give you your soul as a spoil in all the places to which you may go.’”+

14 Then Aʹmos answered and said to Am·a·ziʹah: “I was not a prophet, neither was I the son of a prophet;*+ but I was a herdsman+ and a nipper of figs of sycamore trees.

16 Be minded the same way toward others as to yourselves;+ do not be minding lofty things,+ but be led along with the lowly things.+ Do not become discreet in YOUR own eyes.+