VIN(i)
1 Thus has the Lord God showed me; and behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and behold, one caterpillar, King Gog.
2 When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Sovereign LORD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
3 So the Lord relented from this. "This will not happen," said the LORD.
4 Thus the Sovereign LORD showed me and behold, the Sovereign LORD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
5 Then I said, Sovereign LORD, I beg You, stop. How can Jacob stand? For he is small.
6 So the LORD relented from this. "This will not happen, either," said the Lord GOD.
7 This is what he showed me: Look, the Lord was standing upon a wall that stood straight and true, with a plumb line in his hand.
8 And the LORD asked me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said: "A plumb line." Then the LORD said: "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not spare them any more.
9 "The high places of Isaac will be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste. I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."
10 Then Amasias the priest of Baithel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos is raising insurrections against thee in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
11 For this Amos has said, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go into exile away from his land.'"
12 And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee to the land of Judah and earn food there and prophesy there!"
13 Don't prophesy anymore at Bethel, because it's the king's sanctuary and a temple of the kingdom."
14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, "I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
15 But the LORD took me from tending the flock and the LORD kept saying to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
16 Now, then, hear the word of the LORD: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop words against the house of Isaac.
17 'Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Your wife will become a whore in the city, and your sons and daughters will die by the sword. Your land will be divided and apportioned, and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will surely go into exile, far from its homeland."'"