Amos 7:1-17 KJ21

[1] Thus hath the Lord GOD shown unto me: And behold, He formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. [2] And it came to pass, when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech Thee! By whom shall Jacob arise? For he is small." [3] The LORD repented concerning this. "It shall not be," saith the LORD. [4] Thus hath the Lord GOD shown unto me: And behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep and ate up a part. [5] Then said I, "O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee! By whom shall Jacob arise? For he is small." [6] The LORD repented concerning this. "This also shall not be," saith the Lord GOD. [7] Thus He showed me: And behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. [8] And the LORD said unto me, "Amos, what seest thou?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then said the Lord, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of My people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. [9] And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." [10] Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words. [11] For thus Amos saith, 'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of their own land.'" [12] Also Amaziah said unto Amos, "O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread and prophesy there. [13] But prophesy not again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the king's court." [14] Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit. [15] And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, 'Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.' [16] Now therefore, hear thou the word of the LORD. Thou sayest, 'Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.' [17] Therefore thus saith the LORD: 'Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword; and thy land shall be divided by line, and thou shalt die in a polluted land. And Israel shall surely go into captivity forth from his land.'"