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7 This is what the Lord Yahweh showed me in a vision: “Behold, he is going to send locusts to destroy our crops. It is going to happen right after the king’s share of the hay has been harvested and before the rest of the hay is ready to be harvested. 2 In the vision I saw those locusts come, and they ate everything that was green. Then I cried out, “Yahweh our Lord, please forgive us! We Israelite people are very helpless; how will we be able to survive ?”
3 So Yahweh showed mercy and said, “That will not happen.”
4 Then this is what Yahweh our Lord showed me in another vision: Behold, Yahweh our Lord was calling to a fire to come and punish his people. In the vision I saw that the fire had dried up the water under all the land and also had burned everything on the land. 5 Then I cried out again, “Yahweh our Lord, I plead with you, please stop this! We Israelite people are very helpless; how will we be able to survive ?”
6 So Yahweh showed mercy again, and Yahweh the Lord said, “That also will not happen.”
7 Then he showed me another vision. Behold, I saw the Lord standing beside a wall. It was very straight because it had been built using a plumb line. The Lord had the plumb line in his hand. 8 Yahweh asked me, “Amos, what do you see?”
I replied, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said, “Look, I am going to use a plumb line among my people, Israel, to show that they are crooked. I will not spare them from punishment any longer.
9 Then I will destroy the hilltop places where the descendants of Isaac worship idols.
And I will also lay waste to the other important holy places in Israel.
And I will raise up against King Jeroboam and all his descendants the swords of his enemies.
10 Then Amaziah the priest at Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, the king of Israel. In the message he said, “Amos is plotting against you among the Israelite people. I am worried that the people of this country will not know that he is wrong. 11 This is what Amos is saying:
‘Jeroboam will soon die, murdered by an enemy wielding a sword.
and the enemies of Israel will forcibly remove the people of Israel and send them away from their land.’”
12 Then Amaziah came to Amos and said, “You prophet, get out of here! Flee for your life back to the country of Judah! Do your prophesying there if you want to earn money! 13 Do not prophesy anymore here at Bethel, because this is where the national temple, the king’s temple, is!”
14 Amos replied to Amaziah, “I was previously not a prophet and my father was not a prophet; I was a shepherd. I also took care of sycamore fig trees. 15 But Yahweh took me away from taking care of my sheep, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go to Israel and prophesy to my people there!’
16 So now, listen to Yahweh’s judgment. “You said to me, ‘Do not prophesy and say that terrible things will happen to the people of Israel;
stop saying those things!’
17 Therefore, this is what Yahweh has declared about you:
‘Your wife will become a prostitute in this very city;
your sons and daughters will die because their enemies will kill them.
Others will measure your land
and divide it up among themselves;
and you yourself will die in a foreign country.
And the people of Israel will certainly have to leave their country and go into exile.’”