| 1 | Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest. |
| 2 | It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small. |
| 3 | Yahweh repented concerning this: It shall not be, says Yahweh. |
| 4 | Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and, behold, the Lord Yahweh called to content by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land. |
| 5 | Then said I, Lord Yahweh, cease, I beg you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small. |
| 6 | Yahweh repented concerning this: this also shall not be, says the Lord Yahweh. |
| 7 | Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand. |
| 8 | Yahweh said to me, Amos, what see you? 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 Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. |
| 11 | For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. |
| 12 | Also Amaziah said to Amos, you seer, go, flee you away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: |
| 13 | but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house. |
| 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 dresser of sycamore-trees: |
| 15 | and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel. |
| 16 | Now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh: You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't drop [your word] against the house of Isaac; |
| 17 | therefore thus says Yahweh: 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 line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. |