¹This is what the Adonai Yahweh showed me: look, he was forming locusts at the beginning of the sprouting up of the latter growth — and look, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

²And it came about that when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Adonai Yahweh, please forgive! How can Jacob stand, since he is small?”

³Yahweh relented over this: “It will not be,” Yahweh said.

⁴This is what the Adonai Yahweh showed me: look, the Adonai Yahweh was calling for a contest by fire; it devoured the great deep, and devoured the portion.

⁵Then I said, “Adonai Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob stand, since he is small?”

⁶Yahweh relented over this: “This too will not be,” said the Adonai Yahweh.

⁷This is what he showed me: look, the Lord was standing beside a wall built by the plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.

⁸And Yahweh said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A plumb-line.” And the Lord said, “Look, I am about to set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by it.”

⁹The high places of Isaac will be made desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel will lie waste, and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

¹⁰And 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 cannot hold all his words.”

¹¹For this is what Amos has said: “Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile away from its own ground.”

¹²And Amaziah said to Amos, “Seer, go, flee off to the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.”

¹³But at Bethel you must never again prophesy, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a house of the kingdom.

¹⁴And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, nor am I a prophet's son; for I was a herdsman, and a picker of sycamore figs.”

¹⁵And Yahweh took me from behind the flock, and Yahweh said to me, “Go, prophesy to my people Israel.”

¹⁶And now hear the word of Yahweh. You are saying, “Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drip prophecy against the house of Isaac.”

¹⁷Therefore 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, and your ground will be divided up with a measuring line; and you will die on unclean ground, and Israel will surely go into exile away from its own ground.”