This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming a swarm of locusts, when the late spring grass began to come up after the king’s share had been harvested.
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And when they had finished devouring all the land’s vegetation, I said:
The Lord relented. This will not happen,” said the Lord.
This is what he showed me: the Lord God was giving command to execute judgment by fire. It burned up the great deep, and had begun to devour the fields, and I said:
“Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
The Lord relented. “This will not happen either,” said the Lord.
This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
And the Lord said to me,
And the high places of Isaac
Then Amaziah, chief priest of Bethel sent this message to King Jeroboam of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you right in the heart of Israel. The country cannot survive all his words.
Amos has said, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will be led away captive out of their land.’”
And Amaziah said to Amos, “Leave, you who see visions, go to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and prophesy there,
but don’t prophesy any more at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is the royal residence.”
“I am no prophet,” Amos answered Amaziah, “nor trained as one. I am a shepherd and a keeper of sycamores fig trees.
But the Lord took me away from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
Now therefore listen to the Lord’s message:
But the Lord says: