KJ3 Literal Translation
Amos 7
The judgments of the locusts, and of the fire, are diverted by the prayer of Amos. Amaziah orders Amos to stop prophesying in Israel.
1The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And, behold, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the after growth; even behold, the after growth after the mowings of the king.
2And it happened when it had made an end of eating the green plant of the land, even I said, Lord Jehovah, I pray, forgive. How can Jacob rise up? For he is small.
3Jehovah was moved to pity concerning this: It shall not be, says Jehovah.
4The Lord Jehovah made me to see this: And, behold, the Lord Jehovah was calling to contend by fire. And it consumed the great deep, and it was devouring part of it.
5And I said, Lord Jehovah, I pray, stop. How can Jacob rise up? For he is small.
6Jehovah was moved to pity concerning this: Also it shall not be, says the Lord Jehovah.
7He made me see this: And, behold, the Lord was standing by the plumb line wall, and a plumb line in His hand.
8And Jehovah said to me, Amos, what are you seeing? And I said, A plumb line. And the Lord said, Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of My people Israel. I will not again pass over him any more.
9And the high places of Isaac shall be desolated, and the holy places of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
10And Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to Jeroboam, the king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to endure all his words.
11For so Amos says: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and going Israel shall go into exile out of his land.
12And Amaziah said to Amos, Seer, go! Flee for yourself into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.
13But do not add to prophesy at Bethel any more, for it is the king's holy place, and it is the royal house.
14Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I was not a prophet, and not was I a prophet's son, but I was a herdsman and one tending sycamore trees.
15And Jehovah took me from behind the flock, and Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.
16And now hear the Word of Jehovah: You are saying, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop words against the house of Isaac.
17So thus says Jehovah, Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by a line. And you shall die in a defiled land. And going Israel shall go into exile from his land.
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