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1. This is what Lord Yahweh showed me: there was a swarm of locusts when the second crop was sprouting, full-grown locusts, after the king's hay had been cut.

1. Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he was forming locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

2. When they had eaten all the grass in the land, I said, 'Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you. How can Jacob survive, being so small?'

2. When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

3. Then Yahweh relented; 'It will not happen,' said Yahweh.

3. The LORD repented concerning this; "It shall not be," said the LORD.

4. This is what Lord Yahweh showed me: Lord Yahweh summoning fire in punishment; it had devoured the great Abyss and was encroaching on the land,

4. Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

5. when I said, 'Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you. How can Jacob survive, being so small?'

5. Then I said, "O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

6. Then Yahweh relented; 'This will not happen either,' said the Lord Yahweh.

6. The LORD repented concerning this; "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD.

7. This is what he showed me: the Lord standing by a wall, with a plumb-line in his hand.

7. He showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

8. 'What do you see, Amos?' Yahweh asked me. 'A plumb-line,' I said. Then the Lord said, 'Look, I am going to put a plumb-line in among my people Israel; never again will I overlook their offences.

8. And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;

9. The high places of Isaac will be ruined and the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste, and, sword in hand, I will attack the House of Jeroboam.'

9. the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jerobo'am with the sword."

10. Amaziah the priest of Bethel then sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel as follows, 'Amos is plotting against you in the heart of the House of Israel; the country cannot tolerate his speeches.

10. Then Amazi'ah the priest of Bethel sent to Jerobo'am king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

11. For this is what Amos says, "Jeroboam is going to die by the sword, and Israel will go into captivity far from its native land." '

11. For thus Amos has said, `Jerobo'am shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.'"

12. To Amos himself Amaziah said, 'Go away, seer, take yourself off to Judah, earn your living there, and there you can prophesy!

12. And Amazi'ah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there;

13. But never again will you prophesy at Bethel, for this is a royal sanctuary, a national temple.'

13. but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom."

14. 'I am not a prophet,' Amos replied to Amaziah, 'nor do I belong to a prophetic brotherhood. I am merely a herdsman and dresser of sycamore-figs.

14. Then Amos answered Amazi'ah, "I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman, and a dresser of sycamore trees,

15. But Yahweh took me as I followed the flock, and Yahweh said to me, "Go and prophesy to my people Israel."

15. and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said to me, `Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

16. So now listen to what Yahweh says: "You say: Do not prophesy against Israel, do not foretell doom on the House of Isaac!"

16. "Now therefore hear the word of the LORD. You say, `Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.'

17. Very well, this is what Yahweh says, "Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parcelled out by measuring line, and you yourself will die on polluted soil and Israel will go into captivity far from its own land!"'

17. Therefore thus says the LORD: `Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.'"



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