Amos 7 - Jonah 1
New King James Version
Vision of the Locusts
7 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the [a]beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings. 2 And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:
“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!
(A)Oh,[b] that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”
3 So (B)the Lord relented concerning this.
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
Vision of the Fire
4 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called [c]for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the [d]territory. 5 Then I said:
“O Lord God, cease, I pray!
(C)Oh, that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”
6 So the Lord relented concerning this.
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
Vision of the Plumb Line
7 Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
And I said, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said:
“Behold, (D)I am setting a plumb line
In the midst of My people Israel;
(E)I will not pass by them anymore.
9 (F)The [e]high places of Isaac shall be desolate,
And the [f]sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.
(G)I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam.”
Amaziah’s Complaint
10 Then Amaziah the (H)priest of (I)Bethel sent to (J)Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to [g]bear all his words. 11 For thus Amos has said:
‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
And Israel shall surely be led away (K)captive
From their own land.’ ”
12 Then Amaziah said to Amos:
“Go, you seer!
Flee to the land of Judah.
There eat bread,
And there prophesy.
13 But (L)never again prophesy at Bethel,
(M)For it is the king’s [h]sanctuary,
And it is the royal [i]residence.”
14 Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah:
“I was no prophet,
Nor was I (N)a son of a prophet,
But I was a (O)sheepbreeder
And a tender of sycamore fruit.
15 Then the Lord took me [j]as I followed the flock,
And the Lord said to me,
‘Go, (P)prophesy to My people Israel.’
16 Now therefore, hear the word of the Lord:
You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
And (Q)do not [k]spout against the house of Isaac.’
17 “Therefore(R) thus says the Lord:
(S)‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city;
Your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword;
Your land shall be divided by survey line;
You shall die in a (T)defiled land;
And Israel shall surely be led away captive
From his own land.’ ”
Vision of the Summer Fruit
8 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 And He said, “Amos, what do you see?”
So I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”
Then the Lord said to me:
(U)“The end has come upon My people Israel;
(V)I will not pass by them anymore.
3 And (W)the songs of the temple
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God—
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
(X)They shall be thrown out in silence.”
4 Hear this, you who [l]swallow up the needy,
And make the poor of the land fail,
5 Saying:
“When will the New Moon be past,
That we may sell grain?
And (Y)the Sabbath,
That we may [m]trade wheat?
(Z)Making the ephah small and the shekel large,
Falsifying the scales by (AA)deceit,
6 That we may buy the poor for (AB)silver,
And the needy for a pair of sandals—
Even sell the bad wheat?”
7 The Lord has sworn by (AC)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely (AD)I will never forget any of their works.
8 (AE)Shall the land not tremble for this,
And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
All of it shall swell like [n]the River,
Heave and subside
(AF)Like the River of Egypt.
9 “And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God,
(AG)“That I will make the sun go down at noon,
And I will darken the earth in [o]broad daylight;
10 I will turn your feasts into (AH)mourning,
(AI)And all your songs into lamentation;
(AJ)I will bring sackcloth on every waist,
And baldness on every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.
11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But (AK)of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall (AL)not find it.
13 “In that day the fair virgins
And strong young men
Shall faint from thirst.
14 Those who (AM)swear by (AN)the [p]sin of Samaria,
Who say,
‘As your god lives, O Dan!’
And, ‘As the way of (AO)Beersheba lives!’
They shall fall and never rise again.”
The Destruction of Israel
9 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:
“Strike the [q]doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
And (AP)break them on the heads of them all.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
(AQ)He who flees from them shall not get away,
And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
2 “Though(AR) they dig into [r]hell,
From there My hand shall take them;
(AS)Though they climb up to heaven,
From there I will bring them down;
3 And though they (AT)hide themselves on top of Carmel,
From there I will search and take them;
Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies,
From there (AU)I will command the sword,
And it shall slay them.
(AV)I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”
5 The Lord God of hosts,
He who touches the earth and it (AW)melts,
(AX)And all who dwell there mourn;
All of it shall swell like [s]the River,
And subside like the River of Egypt.
6 He who builds His (AY)layers[t] in the sky,
And has founded His strata in the earth;
Who (AZ)calls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the earth—
(BA)The Lord is His name.
7 “Are you not like the [u]people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The (BB)Philistines from (BC)Caphtor,[v]
And the Syrians from (BD)Kir?
8 “Behold, (BE)the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I (BF)will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
9 “For surely I will command,
And will [w]sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
(BG)Yet not the smallest [x]grain shall fall to the ground.
10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
(BH)Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’
Israel Will Be Restored
11 “On(BI) that day I will raise up
The [y]tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And [z]repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 (BJ)That they may possess the remnant of (BK)Edom,[aa]
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the Lord who does this thing.
13 “Behold, (BL)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
(BM)The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
And all the hills shall flow with it.
14 (BN)I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
(BO)They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15 I will plant them in their land,
(BP)And no longer shall they be pulled up
From the land I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.
The Coming Judgment on Edom
1 The vision of Obadiah.
Thus says the Lord God (BQ)concerning Edom
(BR)(We have heard a report from the Lord,
And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
“Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):
2 “Behold, I will make you small among the nations;
You shall be greatly despised.
3 The (BS)pride of your heart has deceived you,
You who dwell in the clefts of the rock,
Whose habitation is high;
(BT)You who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’
4 (BU)Though you ascend as high as the eagle,
And though you (BV)set your nest among the stars,
From there I will bring you down,” says the Lord.
5 “If (BW)thieves had come to you,
If robbers by night—
Oh, how you will be cut off!—
Would they not have stolen till they had enough?
If grape-gatherers had come to you,
(BX)Would they not have left some gleanings?
6 “Oh, how Esau shall be searched out!
How his hidden treasures shall be sought after!
7 All the men in your confederacy
Shall force you to the border;
(BY)The men at peace with you
Shall deceive you and prevail against you.
Those who eat your bread shall lay a [ab]trap for you.
(BZ)No[ac] one is aware of it.
8 “Will(CA) I not in that day,” says the Lord,
“Even destroy the wise men from Edom,
And understanding from the mountains of Esau?
9 Then your (CB)mighty men, O (CC)Teman, shall be dismayed,
To the end that everyone from the mountains of Esau
May be cut off by slaughter.
Edom Mistreated His Brother
10 “For (CD)violence against your brother Jacob,
Shame shall cover you,
And (CE)you shall be cut off forever.
11 In the day that you (CF)stood on the other side—
In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,
When foreigners entered his gates
And (CG)cast lots for Jerusalem—
Even you were as one of them.
12 “But you should not have (CH)gazed[ad] on the day of your brother
[ae]In the day of his captivity;
Nor should you have (CI)rejoiced over the children of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Nor should you have spoken proudly
In the day of distress.
13 You should not have entered the gate of My people
In the day of their calamity.
Indeed, you should not have [af]gazed on their affliction
In the day of their calamity,
Nor laid hands on their substance
In the day of their calamity.
14 You should not have stood at the crossroads
To cut off those among them who escaped;
Nor should you have [ag]delivered up those among them who remained
In the day of distress.
15 “For(CJ) the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
(CK)As you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your [ah]reprisal shall return upon your own head.
16 (CL)For as you drank on My holy mountain,
So shall all the nations drink continually;
Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
And they shall be as though they had never been.
Israel’s Final Triumph
17 “But on Mount Zion there (CM)shall be [ai]deliverance,
And there shall be holiness;
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
And the house of Joseph (CN)a flame;
But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
They shall kindle them and devour them,
And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.
19 The [aj]South (CO)shall possess the mountains of Esau,
(CP)And the Lowland shall possess Philistia.
They shall possess the fields of Ephraim
And the fields of Samaria.
Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel
Shall possess the land of the Canaanites
As (CQ)far as Zarephath.
The captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
(CR)Shall possess the cities of the [ak]South.
21 Then (CS)saviors[al] shall come to Mount Zion
To judge the mountains of Esau,
And the (CT)kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
Jonah’s Disobedience
1 Now the word of the Lord came to (CU)Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to (CV)Nineveh, that (CW)great city, and cry out against it; for (CX)their wickedness has come up before Me.” 3 But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to (CY)Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to (CZ)Tarshish (DA)from the presence of the Lord.
The Storm at Sea
4 But (DB)the Lord [am]sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken up.
5 Then the mariners were afraid; and every man cried out to his god, and threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten [an]the load. But Jonah had gone down (DC)into the lowest parts of the ship, had lain down, and was fast asleep.
6 So the captain came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, (DD)call on your God; (DE)perhaps your God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
7 And they said to one another, “Come, let us (DF)cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this trouble has come upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. 8 Then they said to him, (DG)“Please tell us! For whose cause is this trouble upon us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is your country? And of what people are you?”
9 So he said to them, “I am a Hebrew; and I fear [ao]the Lord, the God of heaven, (DH)who made the sea and the dry land.”
Jonah Thrown into the Sea
10 Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. 11 Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you that the sea may be calm for us?”—for the sea was growing more tempestuous.
12 And he said to them, (DI)“Pick me up and [ap]throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest is because of me.”
13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, (DJ)but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them. 14 Therefore they cried out to the Lord and said, “We pray, O Lord, please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and (DK)do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O Lord, (DL)have done as it pleased You.” 15 So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, (DM)and the sea ceased from its raging. 16 Then the men (DN)feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice to the Lord and took vows.
Jonah’s Prayer and Deliverance
17 Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And (DO)Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Notas al pie
- Amos 7:1 Lit. beginning of the sprouting of
- Amos 7:2 Or How shall Jacob stand
- Amos 7:4 to contend
- Amos 7:4 Lit. portion
- Amos 7:9 Places of pagan worship
- Amos 7:9 Or holy places
- Amos 7:10 Or endure
- Amos 7:13 Or holy place
- Amos 7:13 Lit. house
- Amos 7:15 Lit. from behind
- Amos 7:16 Lit. drip
- Amos 8:4 Or trample on, Amos 2:7
- Amos 8:5 Lit. open
- Amos 8:8 The Nile; some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg., Syr., Vg. River (cf. 9:5); MT the light
- Amos 8:9 Lit. a day of light
- Amos 8:14 Or Ashima, a Syrian goddess
- Amos 9:1 Capitals of the pillars
- Amos 9:2 Or Sheol
- Amos 9:5 The Nile
- Amos 9:6 Or stairs
- Amos 9:7 Lit. sons of the Ethiopians
- Amos 9:7 Crete
- Amos 9:9 shake
- Amos 9:9 Lit. pebble
- Amos 9:11 Lit. booth; a figure of a deposed dynasty
- Amos 9:11 Lit. wall up its breaches
- Amos 9:12 LXX mankind
- Obadiah 1:7 Or wound or plot
- Obadiah 1:7 Or There is no understanding in him
- Obadiah 1:12 Gloated over
- Obadiah 1:12 Lit. On the day he became a foreigner
- Obadiah 1:13 Gloated over
- Obadiah 1:14 Handed over to the enemy
- Obadiah 1:15 Or reward
- Obadiah 1:17 Or salvation
- Obadiah 1:19 Heb. Negev
- Obadiah 1:20 Heb. Negev
- Obadiah 1:21 deliverers
- Jonah 1:4 Lit. hurled
- Jonah 1:5 Lit. from upon them
- Jonah 1:9 Heb. YHWH
- Jonah 1:12 Lit. hurl
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