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New American Standard Bible 1995

Amos 7

Warning Through Visions

1Thus the Lord 1God showed me, and behold, He was forming a 2locust-swarm 3when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s 4mowing. 2And it came about, 5when it had 6finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, “7Lord God, please pardon! 8How can Jacob stand, For he is 9small?”3The Lord 1011changed His mind about this. “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

4Thus the Lord God showed me, and behold, the Lord God was calling to contend with them by 12fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the 13farm land. 5Then I said, “14Lord God, please stop! 15How can Jacob stand, for he is small?”6The Lord 1617changed His mind about this. “This too shall not be,” said the Lord God.

7Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing 18by a 19vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand. 8The Lord said to me, “20What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold I am about to put a 21plumb line In the midst of My people Israel. I will 2223spare them no longer.9The 24high places of Isaac will be desolated And the 25sanctuaries of Israel laid waste. Then I will 26rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Amos Accused, Answers

10Then Amaziah, the 27priest of Bethel, sent word to 28Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has 29conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words. 11For thus Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’” 12Then Amaziah said to Amos, “30Go, you seer, flee away to the land of Judah and there eat bread and there do your prophesying! 13But 31no longer prophesy at Bethel, for it is a 32sanctuary of the king and a royal 33residence.”

14Then Amos replied to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, nor am I the 34son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a 35grower of sycamore figs. 15But the Lord took me from 36following the flock and the Lord said to me, ‘Go 37prophesy to My people Israel.’ 16Now hear the word of the Lord: you are saying, ‘You 38shall not prophesy against Israel 39nor shall you 40speak against the house of Isaac.’ 17Therefore, thus says the Lord, ‘Your 41wife will become a harlot in the city, your 42sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line and you yourself will die 43upon 44unclean soil. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’”

Notes

  1. 1. Amos 7:1 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch ↩
  2. 2. Amos 7:1 Joel 1:4; Amos 4:9; Nah 3:15 ↩
  3. 3. Amos 7:1 Lit at the beginning of the coming up of ↩
  4. 4. Amos 7:1 Or shearings ↩
  5. 5. Amos 7:2 Lit if ↩
  6. 6. Amos 7:2 Ex 10:15 ↩
  7. 7. Amos 7:2 Jer 14:7, 20, 21; Ezek 9:8; 11:13 ↩
  8. 8. Amos 7:2 Lit As who ↩
  9. 9. Amos 7:2 Is 37:4; Jer 42:2 ↩
  10. 10. Amos 7:3 Or relented ↩
  11. 11. Amos 7:3 Deut 32:36; Jer 26:19; Hos 11:8; Amos 5:15; Jon 3:10 ↩
  12. 12. Amos 7:4 Deut 32:22; Is 66:15, 16; Amos 2:5 ↩
  13. 13. Amos 7:4 Lit portion ↩
  14. 14. Amos 7:5 Ps 85:4; Joel 2:17 ↩
  15. 15. Amos 7:5 Amos 7:2 ↩
  16. 16. Amos 7:6 Or relented ↩
  17. 17. Amos 7:6 Ps 106:45; Amos 7:3; Jon 3:10 ↩
  18. 18. Amos 7:7 Or upon ↩
  19. 19. Amos 7:7 Lit wall of a plumb line ↩
  20. 20. Amos 7:8 Jer 1:11; Amos 8:2 ↩
  21. 21. Amos 7:8 2 Kin 21:13; Is 28:17; 34:11; Lam 2:8 ↩
  22. 22. Amos 7:8 Lit pass him by ↩
  23. 23. Amos 7:8 Jer 15:6; Ezek 7:4-9; Amos 8:2 ↩
  24. 24. Amos 7:9 Gen 46:1; Hos 10:8; Mic 1:5 ↩
  25. 25. Amos 7:9 Lev 26:31; Is 63:18; Jer 51:51; Amos 7:13 ↩
  26. 26. Amos 7:9 2 Kin 15:8-10; Amos 7:11 ↩
  27. 27. Amos 7:10 1 Kin 12:31, 32; 13:33 ↩
  28. 28. Amos 7:10 2 Kin 14:23, 24 ↩
  29. 29. Amos 7:10 Jer 26:8-11; 38:4 ↩
  30. 30. Amos 7:12 Matt 8:34 ↩
  31. 31. Amos 7:13 Amos 2:12; Acts 4:18 ↩
  32. 32. Amos 7:13 1 Kin 12:29, 32; Amos 7:9 ↩
  33. 33. Amos 7:13 Lit house ↩
  34. 34. Amos 7:14 1 Kin 20:35; 2 Kin 2:3, 5; 4:38; 2 Chr 19:2 ↩
  35. 35. Amos 7:14 Or nipper ↩
  36. 36. Amos 7:15 Lit behind ↩
  37. 37. Amos 7:15 Jer 1:7; Ezek 2:3, 4 ↩
  38. 38. Amos 7:16 Amos 2:12; 7:13 ↩
  39. 39. Amos 7:16 Deut 32:2; Ezek 20:46; 21:2 ↩
  40. 40. Amos 7:16 Lit flow ↩
  41. 41. Amos 7:17 Hos 4:13, 14 ↩
  42. 42. Amos 7:17 Jer 14:16 ↩
  43. 43. Amos 7:17 Or in an unclean land ↩
  44. 44. Amos 7:17 2 Kin 17:6; Ezek 4:13; Hos 9:3 ↩

Commentaries on Amos 7

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