Amos 7:1-17 MEV

[1] This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was forming a plague of locusts when the latter growth was beginning to sprout up, the latter growth after the king's reaping. [2] When they had finished devouring the foliage of the land, I said, "O Lord GOD, please forgive. How can Jacob survive? For he is small." [3] The LORD relented concerning this: "It shall not be," said the LORD. [4] This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire. It was consuming the great deep and was devouring the fields. [5] I said, "O Lord GOD, please stop. How can Jacob survive? For he is small." [6] The LORD relented concerning this: "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD. [7] This is what He showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall made using a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. [8] The LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "See, I am putting a plumb line in the midst of My people Israel. I will forgive them no more. [9] The high places of Isaac will be destroyed, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." [10] Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you at the very center of the house of Israel. The country cannot endure all his words. [11] For this is what Amos said: 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely be exiled away from its land.' " [12] So Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee back to the land of Judah. Earn your sustenance there, and prophesy there. [13] But do not prophesy any more at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary and a royal temple." [14] But Amos answered Amaziah: "I am no prophet, and I am no prophet's disciple. Rather, I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees. [15] But the LORD took me away from the flock, and the LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.' [16] Now therefore hear the word of the LORD: You say, 'Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.' [17] "Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided by measuring line; you yourself will die in an unclean land; and Israel will surely go into exile away from its land.' "