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AmosWEB
Amos 7:1WEB
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Amos 7:2WEB
When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Amos 7:3WEB
Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Amos 7:4WEB
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Amos 7:5WEB
Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Amos 7:6WEB
Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Amos 7:7WEB
Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
Amos 7:8WEB
Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Amos 7:9WEB
The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
Amos 7:10WEB
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
Amos 7:11WEB
For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
Amos 7:12WEB
Amaziah also said to Amos, “You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there,
Amos 7:13WEB
but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
Amos 7:14WEB
Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son, but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
Amos 7:15WEB
and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Amos 7:16WEB
Now therefore listen to Yahweh’s word: ‘You say, Don’t prophesy against Israel, and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.’
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Amos 7:17WEB
Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.