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Amos Chapter 7 (Passion Bible)

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¹ This is what Lord Yahweh revealed to me in a vision: Behold! Just after the hay had been cut for the king, when the new young grass started to grow again, I saw Yahweh forming a swarm of mature locusts.

² I watched as they began eating all the vegetation in the land, so I pleaded with God, saying, “Lord Yahweh, please forgive us, I beg you, or we will not survive! Our nation is so helpless.”

³ My prayer moved God’s heart to compassion. Yahweh said: “It will not happen.” Second Vision: The Drought

⁴ In another vision, Yahweh revealed this to me: Behold! He was calling for punishment by fire. The scorching heat dried up the deep sources of water beneath the land and made the farmlands like dust.

⁵ So I pleaded with God, saying, “Lord Yahweh, please don’t do this, I beg you, or we will not survive! Our nation is so helpless.”

⁶ Because of my prayer, God’s heart was stirred with compassion. “This also will not happen,” said Yahweh. Third Vision: The Plumb Line

⁷ Lord Yahweh revealed this to me in another vision: I saw the Lord standing by a wall built true to plumb, holding a plumb line in his hand.

⁸ “Amos, what do you see?” Yahweh asked me. “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am about to set a plumb line up against my people Israel to test them. Never again will I look the other way when they sin.

⁹ I will destroy the high places where Isaac’s descendants worship, and I will ruin the holy places of Israel. With my sword in hand, I will attack the dynasty of Jeroboam.” Amaziah Challenges Amos

¹⁰ Then Amaziah the chief priest of Bethel sent the following message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you in the very heart of Israel. We cannot stand his speeches!

¹¹ For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam is going to die by the sword, and Israel will go into captivity far from its native land.’ ”

¹² Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer. Why don’t you escape to Judah while there is time? You can always prophesy there and make your living.

¹³ But don’t stay around here and prophesy at Bethel anymore. This is the national temple, the place where the king worships.”

¹⁴ Amos replied, “I am not a prophet, nor am I one of the sons of the prophets. I am merely a rancher, and I cultivate fig trees.

¹⁵ But one day, Yahweh called me as I was managing my flocks and said to me, ‘Go and prophesy to my people Israel.’

¹⁶ “So now, Amaziah, listen to what Yahweh says. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not prophesy doom on Isaac’s descendants!’

¹⁷ Very well. This is what Yahweh says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets, and your sons and daughters will fall in battle. Your land will be measured, divided up, and given to others. And you yourself will die in a pagan land, and Israel will go into captivity far from its own land!’ ”

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1	This is what Lord Yahweh revealed to me in a vision: Behold! Just after the hay had been cut for the king, when the new young grass started to grow again, I saw Yahweh forming a swarm of mature locusts.
2	I watched as they began eating all the vegetation in the land, so I pleaded with God, saying, “Lord Yahweh, please forgive us, I beg you, or we will not survive! Our nation is so helpless.”
3	My prayer moved God’s heart to compassion. Yahweh said: “It will not happen.” Second Vision: The Drought
4	In another vision, Yahweh revealed this to me: Behold! He was calling for punishment by fire. The scorching heat dried up the deep sources of water beneath the land and made the farmlands like dust.
5	So I pleaded with God, saying, “Lord Yahweh, please don’t do this, I beg you, or we will not survive! Our nation is so helpless.”
6	Because of my prayer, God’s heart was stirred with compassion. “This also will not happen,” said Yahweh. Third Vision: The Plumb Line
7	Lord Yahweh revealed this to me in another vision: I saw the Lord standing by a wall built true to plumb, holding a plumb line in his hand.
8	“Amos, what do you see?” Yahweh asked me. “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am about to set a plumb line up against my people Israel to test them. Never again will I look the other way when they sin.
9	I will destroy the high places where Isaac’s descendants worship, and I will ruin the holy places of Israel. With my sword in hand, I will attack the dynasty of Jeroboam.” Amaziah Challenges Amos
10	Then Amaziah the chief priest of Bethel sent the following message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you in the very heart of Israel. We cannot stand his speeches!
11	For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam is going to die by the sword, and Israel will go into captivity far from its native land.’ ”
12	Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer. Why don’t you escape to Judah while there is time? You can always prophesy there and make your living.
13	But don’t stay around here and prophesy at Bethel anymore. This is the national temple, the place where the king worships.”
14	Amos replied, “I am not a prophet, nor am I one of the sons of the prophets. I am merely a rancher, and I cultivate fig trees.
15	But one day, Yahweh called me as I was managing my flocks and said to me, ‘Go and prophesy to my people Israel.’
16	“So now, Amaziah, listen to what Yahweh says. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, and do not prophesy doom on Isaac’s descendants!’
17	Very well. This is what Yahweh says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets, and your sons and daughters will fall in battle. Your land will be measured, divided up, and given to others. And you yourself will die in a pagan land, and Israel will go into captivity far from its own land!’ ”

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