Amos 7

Tree of Life Version

Locusts and the Trial by Fire

7 This is what my Lord Adonai has shown me: Behold, He was forming locusts at the beginning of the spring crop—after the cutting of the king’s hay. ² When the locust-swarm had finished devouring the vegetation of the land, I said:

⁴ This is what my Lord Adonai has shown me: Behold, Adonai Elohim was calling for the trial by fire, and it would have devoured the great deep, and it would have devoured the territory. ⁵ But I said:

Plumb Line on a Wall

⁷ This is what He has revealed to me: Behold, my Lord was standing by a vertical wall, and in His hand was a plumb line. ⁸ Then Adonai said to me: “What do you see, Amos?”

¹⁰ Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent word to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying: “Amos has been conspiring against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words. ¹¹ For this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go captive from his land.’”

¹² Then Amaziah said to Amos: “Seer, go away! Flee back to the land of Judah. Eat bread there, and prophesy there. ¹³ But at Bethel you are not to prophesy any more—for it is a royal sanctuary and a house of the kingdom.”

¹⁴ So Amos responded and said to Amaziah: “I am no prophet, nor am I a son of a prophet. Rather, I am a shepherd tending fig trees. ¹⁵ But Adonai took me from following the flock and Adonai said to me: ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’ ¹⁶ So now, hear the word of Adonai: You are saying, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’ ¹⁷ Therefore, this is what Adonai says: