`Amos, starting at chapter 7
{7:1} Thus the Lord GOD showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in
the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, behold, it
was the latter growth after the king's harvest. {7:2} It happened
that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I
said, "Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Ya`akov stand? For he
is small."
{7:3} The LORD relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says the
LORD.
{7:4} Thus the Lord GOD showed me and, behold, the Lord GOD called
for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have
devoured the land. {7:5} Then I said, "Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How
could Ya`akov stand? For he is small."
{7:6} The LORD relented concerning this. "This also shall not be,"
says the Lord GOD.
{7:7} Thus he showed me and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall
made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. {7:8} The LORD
said to 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 Yisra'el. I will not again pass by them any more. {7:9} The
high places of Yitzchak will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Yisra'el
will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Yarov`am with
the sword."
{7:10} Then Amatzyah the [1>]Kohen[<1] of Beit-El sent to Yarov`am
king of Yisra'el, saying, "`Amos has conspired against you in the
midst of the house of Yisra'el. The land is not able to bear all his
words. {7:11} For `Amos says, 'Yarov`am will die by the sword, and
Yisra'el shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"
{7:12} Amatzyah also said to `Amos, "You seer, go, flee away into
the land of Yehudah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: {7:13}
but don't prophesy again any more at Beit-El; for it is the king's
sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"
{7:14} Then `Amos answered Amatzyah, "I was no prophet, neither was
I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore
trees; {7:15} and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the
LORD said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Yisra'el.' {7:16} Now
therefore listen to the word of the LORD: 'You say, Don't prophesy
against Yisra'el, and don't preach against the house of Yitzchak.'
{7:17} Therefore thus says the LORD: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute
in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in
a land that is unclean, and Yisra'el shall surely be led away captive
out of his land.'"
{8:1} Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
{8:2} He said, "`Amos, what do you see?"
I said, "A basket of summer fruit."
Then the LORD said to me,
"The end has come on my people Yisra'el.
I will not again pass by them any more.
{8:3} The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the
Lord GOD.
"The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them
out with silence.
{8:4} Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy,
And cause the poor of the land to fail,
{8:5} Saying, 'When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell
grain?
And the Shabbat, that we may market wheat,
Making the efah small, and the shekel large,
And dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
{8:6} That we may buy the poor for silver,
And the needy for a pair of shoes,
And sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
{8:7} The LORD has sworn by the pride of Ya`akov,
"Surely I will never forget any of their works.
{8:8} Won't the land tremble for this,
And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;
And it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of
Mitzrayim.
{8:9} "It will happen in that day," says the Lord GOD,
"That I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
And I will darken the [1>]eretz[<1] in the clear day.
{8:10} I will turn your feasts into mourning,
And all your songs into lamentation;
And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,
And baldness on every head.
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
And the end of it like a bitter day.
{8:11} Behold, the days come," says the Lord GOD,
"That I will send a famine in the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But of hearing the words of the LORD.
{8:12} They will wander from sea to sea,
And from the north even to the east;
They will run back and forth to seek the word of the LORD,
And will not find it.
{8:13} In that day the beautiful virgins
And the young men will faint for thirst.
{8:14} Those who swear by the sin of Shomron,
And say, 'As your god, Dan, lives;'
And, 'As the way of Be'er-Sheva lives;'
They will fall, and never rise up again."
{9:1} I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike
the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them
in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them
with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall
not one of them escape. {9:2} Though they dig into She'ol, there my
hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will
bring them down. {9:3} Though they hide themselves in the top of
Karmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hid
from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the
serpent, and it will bite them. {9:4} Though they go into captivity
before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill
them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. {9:5} For
the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, is he who touches the land and it melts,
and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like
the River, and will sink again, like the River of Mitzrayim. {9:6} It
is he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded his
vault on the [1>]eretz[<1]; he who calls for the waters of the sea,
and pours them out on the surface of the [2>]eretz[<2]; the LORD is
his name. {9:7} Are you not like the children of the Kushim to me,
children of Yisra'el?" says the LORD. "Haven't I brought up Yisra'el
out of the land of Mitzrayim, and the Pelishtim from Kaftor, and the
Aram from Kir? {9:8} Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the
sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the
[3>]eretz[<3]; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of
Ya`akov," says the LORD. {9:9} "For, behold, I will command, and I
will sift the house of Yisra'el among all the nations, as grain is
sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the
[4>]eretz[<4]. {9:10} All the sinners of my people will die by the
sword, who say, 'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.' {9:11} In that day
I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its
breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the
days of old; {9:12} that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all
the nations who are called by my name," says the LORD who does this.
{9:13} "Behold, the days come," says the LORD,
"That the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the one treading grapes him who sows seed;
And sweet wine will drip from the mountains,
And flow from the hills.
{9:14} I will bring back the captivity of my people Yisra'el,
And they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them;
and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them.
They shall also make gardens,
And eat the fruit of them.
{9:15} I will plant them on their land,
And they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have
given them,"
says the LORD your God.
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Footnotes:
[1] {7:10} priest
[1] {8:9} earth
[1] {9:6} earth
[2] {9:6} earth
[3] {9:8} earth
[4] {9:9} earth
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