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Amos 7 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Warning through Visions

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:1 -

This is what the Lord [fn]GOD showed me, and behold, He was forming a swarm of locusts [fn]when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s mowing.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:2 - And it came about, [fn]when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,

“Lord GOD, please pardon!

How can Jacob stand?

For he is small.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:3 -

The LORD relented of this.

“It shall not be,” said the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:4 -

So the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, the Lord GOD was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the [fn]farmland.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:5 - Then I said,

“Lord GOD, please stop!

How can Jacob stand?

For he is small.”

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:6 -

The LORD relented of this.

“This too shall not be,” said the Lord GOD.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:7 -

So He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing [fn]by a [fn]vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:8 - And the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“Behold I am about to put a plumb line

In the midst of My people Israel.

I will not [fn]spare them any longer.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:9 -

“The high places of Isaac will become deserted,

And the sanctuaries of Israel will be in ruins.

Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

Amos Accused; Gives an Answer

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:10 -

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:11 - “For this is what Amos says: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:12 - Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Go, you seer, flee to the land of Judah; and eat bread there and do your prophesying there!
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:13 - “But do not prophesy at Bethel any longer, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal [fn]residence.”
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:14 -

Then Amos replied to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a [fn]grower of sycamore figs.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:15 - “But the LORD took me from [fn]following the flock, and the LORD said to me, ‘Go prophesy to My people Israel.’
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:16 - “So now hear the word of the LORD: you are saying, ‘You shall not prophesy against Israel nor shall you [fn]prophesy against the house of Isaac.’
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:17 - “Therefore, this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line, and you yourself will die [fn]upon unclean soil. Furthermore Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’”
NASB20 Footnotes
Heb YHWH, usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch
Lit at the beginning of the coming up of
Lit if
Lit plot of land
Or on
Lit wall of a plumb line
Lit pass him by
Lit house
Or picker
Lit behind
Lit drivel
Or in an unclean land
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