Amos 7:7-13

7This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

8And the Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;

9the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste, and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."

10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel 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.

11For thus Amos has said, "'Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.'"

12And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee away to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there,

13but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom."