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title: Amos 7
slug: kjv/amos-7
createdAt: 2024-08-25T03:10:46.052Z
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**1 **Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed 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, *that* 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 for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

**4 **Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat 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 for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

**7 **Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall *made* by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

**8 **And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline 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 chapel, 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* an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore 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 an 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 of his land.