Amos 7:1 - 7:9

Yahweh Will Rise Up Against Israel

Thus Lord Yahweh showed me, and behold, He was forming a locust-swarm when the spring crop began to come up. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s mowing. 2 And it happened when it had completed eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,

“Lord Yahweh, please pardon!

How can Jacob rise up,

For he is small?”

Yahweh relented concerning this.

“It shall not be,” said Yahweh.

4 Thus Lord Yahweh showed me, and behold, Lord Yahweh was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farm land. 5 Then I said,

“Lord Yahweh, please stop!

How can Jacob rise up, for he is small?”

Yahweh relented concerning this.

“This too shall not be,” said Lord Yahweh.

7 Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a wall made with a plumb line, and in His hand was a plumb line. 8 And Yahweh said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“Behold, I am about to put a plumb line

In the midst of My people Israel.

I will pass over them no longer.

The high places of Isaac will be desolated

And the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste.

Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

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