Amos 7:7-13

7This is what He has revealed to me: Behold, my Lord was standing by a vertical wall, and in His hand was a plumb line.

8Then Adonai said to me: “What do you see, Amos?” I said: “A plumb line.” Then my Lord said: “Behold, I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel— I will no longer pass over them.

9So the high places of Isaac will become desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste, and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

10Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent word to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying: “Amos has been conspiring against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words.

11For this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go captive from his land.’”

12Then Amaziah said to Amos: “Seer, go away! Flee back to the land of Judah. Eat bread there, and prophesy there.

13But at Bethel you are not to prophesy any more—for it is a royal sanctuary and a house of the kingdom.”