1Thus the Lord Yehovah 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 mowings. 2And it happened that, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord Yehovah, please forgive: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small. 3Yehovah relented concerning this: It shall not be, says Yehovah. 4Thus the Lord Yehovah showed me: and, behold, the Lord Yehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land. 5Then I said, O Lord Yehovah, please cease: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small. 6Yehovah relented concerning this: This also shall not be, says the Lord Yehovah. 7Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand. 8And Yehovah said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A plumb-line. Then the Lord said, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more; 9and the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. 10Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words. 11For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land. 12Also Amaziah said to Amos, O you seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: 13but do not prophesy again any more at Beth-el; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house. 14Then Amos answered, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a tender of sycamore-trees: 15and Yehovah took me from following the flock, and Yehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel. 16Now therefore hear the word of Yehovah: You say, Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not drop your word against the house of Isaac; 17therefore thus says Yehovah: 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 Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.