Amos 7:1-17 NASB

[1] This is what the Lord God showed me, and behold, He was forming a swarm of locusts when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s mowing. [2] And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, “Lord God, please pardon! How can Jacob stand? For he is small.” [3] The Lord relented of this. “It shall not be,” said the Lord. [4] So the Lord God showed me, and behold, the Lord God was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farmland. [5] Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How can Jacob stand? For he is small.” [6] The Lord relented of this. “This too shall not be,” said the Lord God. [7] So He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand. [8] And the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold I am about to put a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel. I will not spare them any longer. [9] “The high places of Isaac will become deserted, And the sanctuaries of Israel will be in ruins. Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.” [10] Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words. [11] For this is what Amos says: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’” [12] Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Go, you seer, flee to the land of Judah; and eat bread there and do your prophesying there! [13] But do not prophesy at Bethel any longer, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal residence.” [14] Then Amos replied to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs. [15] But the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go prophesy to My people Israel.’ [16] So now hear the word of the Lord: you are saying, ‘You shall not prophesy against Israel nor shall you prophesy against the house of Isaac.’ [17] Therefore, this is what the Lord says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line, and you yourself will die upon unclean soil. Furthermore Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’”