# Amos 7

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/amos/7

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. This is what Lord Yahweh showed me: he was forming swarms of locusts just as the late crop was beginning to come up—the late crop after the king’s mowing.
2. When they had finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord Yahweh, please forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
3. So Yahweh relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” said Yahweh.
4. This is what Lord Yahweh showed me: Lord Yahweh was calling for judgment by fire. It devoured the great deep and was devouring the land.
5. Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
6. So Yahweh relented concerning this. “This will not happen either,” said Lord Yahweh.
7. This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
8. Yahweh said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will no longer pass them by.
9. The high places of Isaac will be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
10. Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos is conspiring against you in the very midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
11. For this is what Amos is saying: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile away from its land.’”
12. Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there, and do your prophesying there.
13. But never prophesy again at Bethel, for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.”
14. Amos answered Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, and I am not a prophet’s son. I am a herdsman, and I take care of sycamore figs.
15. But Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’
16. Now then, hear the word of Yahweh. You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’
17. Therefore this is what Yahweh says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in an unclean land. And Israel will surely go into exile away from its land.’”

## Nearby chapters

[Amos 6](https://www.lumin.faith/read/amos/6.md)
[Amos 8](https://www.lumin.faith/read/amos/8.md)

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