Thus the Lord God showed me; and, behold, he was forming locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: how shall Ya῾aqov stand? for he is small.

The Lord relented concerning this: It shall not be, said the Lord.

Thus did the Lord God show me: and, behold, the Lord God called to judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and was eating up the land.

Then I said, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Ya῾aqov stand? for he is small.

The Lord relented concerning this: This also shall not be, said the Lord God.

Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

And the Lord said to me, ῾Amos, what dost thou see? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Yisra᾽el: I will not again pardon him any more:

and the high places of Yisĥaq shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Yisra᾽el shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Yorov῾am with the sword.

Then Amażya the priest of Bet-el sent to Yorov῾am king of Yisra᾽el, saying, ῾Amos has conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Yisra᾽el: the land is not able to bear all his words.

For thus ῾Amos says, Yorov῾am shall die by the sword, and Yisra᾽el shall surely be led away into exile out of their own land.

And Amażya said to ῾Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Yehuda, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

but do not prophesy again any more at Bet-el: for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house.

Then ῾Amos answered and said to Amażya, I am no prophet, neither am I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore trees:

and the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Yisra᾽el.

Now therefore hear the word of the Lord: Thou sayst, Do not prophesy against Yisra᾽el, and do not preach against the house of Yisĥaq.

Therefore thus says the Lord; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in an unclean land: and Yisra᾽el shall surely go into Exile out of his land.