Chapter 7

Thus hath the Lord Yehovah shewed me, and lo, He is forming locusts at the beginning of the ascending of the latter growth, and lo, the latter growth is after the mowings of the king;

and it hath come to pass, when it hath finished to consume the herb of the land, that I say: `Lord Yehovah, forgive, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise -- for he is small?`

Yehovah hath repented of this, `It shall not be,` said Yehovah.

Thus hath the Lord Yehovah shewed me, and lo, the Lord Yehovah is calling to contend by fire, and it consumeth the great deep, yea, it hath consumed the portion, and I say:

`Lord Yehovah, cease, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise -- for he is small?`

Yehovah hath repented of this, `It also shall not be,` said the Lord Yehovah.

Thus hath He shewed me, and lo, the Lord is standing by a wall made according to a plumb-line, and in His hand a plumb-line;

and Yehovah saith unto me, `What art thou seeing, Amos?` And I say, `A plumb-line;` and the Lord saith: `Lo, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it.

And desolated have been high places of Isaac, And sanctuaries of Israel are wasted, And I have risen against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.`

And Amaziah priest of Beth-El sendeth unto 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,

for thus said Amos: By sword die doth Jeroboam, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.`

And Amaziah saith unto Amos, `Seer, go flee for thee unto the land of Judah, and eat there bread, and there thou dost prophesy;

and at Beth-El do not add to prophesy any more, for it is the king`s sanctuary, and it is the royal house.`

And Amos answereth and saith unto Amaziah, `I am no prophet, nor a prophet`s son am I, but a herdsman I am, and a cultivator of sycamores,

and Yehovah taketh me from after the flock, and Yehovah saith unto me, Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.

And now, hear a word of Yehovah: thou art saying, Do not prophesy against Israel, nor drop any thing against the house of Isaac,

therefore thus said Yehovah: Thy wife in the city doth go a-whoring, And thy sons and thy daughters by sword do fall, And thy land by line is apportioned, And thou on an unclean land diest, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.`