Amos 7 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Amos is not in PT1904.
1 This is what the Lord God showed me. I saw that he was preparing a swarm of locusts just when the spring crops began to grow. (Spring crops begin to grow right after the time when the king's hay is cut.)
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2 And so when the locusts finished eating every green plant in the fields, I pleaded with the Lord God, “Please forgive your people! How can the descendants of Jacob survive? They are so weak.”
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3 So the Lord changed his mind. “It won't happen,” said the Lord.
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4 This is what the Lord God showed me. I saw that the Lord God was calling for a judgment of fire. The fire burned up the depths of the sea and destroyed the farmland.
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5 I pleaded with the Lord God, “Please stop! How can the descendants of Jacob survive? They are so weak.”
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6 So the Lord changed his mind. “This too won't happen,” said the Lord.
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7 This is what he showed me. I saw the Lord was standing beside a wall that had been built with a plumb line. He was holding a plumb line in his hand.
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8 And the Lord asked me, “Amos, what do you see?” I replied, “A plumb line.” And the Lord God said, “I am placing a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I won't ignore their sins anymore.
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9 The high places of the descendants of Isaac will be torn down, and the holy places of Israel will be destroyed. Sword in hand, I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam.”
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10 Then Amaziah, priest of Bethel, sent a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, “Amos is plotting against you among the people of Israel. What he's saying is unbearable!
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11 For he's saying Jeroboam will be killed by the sword, and the people will be taken away from their land into exile.”
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12 Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away prophet! Run away to the land of Judah. Go and prophesy there to earn your bread.
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13 But don't ever prophesy again at Bethel, for this is where the king worships, the national Temple.”
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14 But Amos replied, “I'm not a trained prophet, or the son of a prophet. I was just a shepherd, and also took care of fig trees.
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15 The Lord took me from following my flock, and the Lord told me, ‘Go, and give my message to my people of Israel.’”
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16 So now hear what the Lord is telling you: You say, “Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the descendants of Isaac.”
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17 But this is what the Lord says: Your wife will become a prostitute in the city; your sons and daughters will be killed by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a foreign land. The people of Israel will definitely be taken from the land and go into exile.
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People & places in this chapter
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People
Amaziah
The priest of Bethel who sent word to Jeroboam against Amos and told him to flee to Judah.
Cited in the guide: Amos 7:10; Amos 7:12; Amos 7:14
Amos
A sheep breeder from Tekoa whose words concerned Israel in the days of Uzziah and Jeroboam, whom Amaziah the priest told to go flee to Judah.
Cited in the guide: Amos 1:1; Amos 7:8; Amos 7:10
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joel 1:4; Amos 8:1; Nahum 3:15–17; Isaiah 33:4; Joel 2:25
- 2 Isaiah 37:4; Ezekiel 11:13; Exodus 10:15; Jeremiah 14:20–21; Jeremiah 42:2
- 3 Deuteronomy 32:36; Jonah 3:10; Hosea 11:8; Psalm 106:45; Amos 7:6
- 4 Amos 7:1; Isaiah 66:15–16; Amos 4:11; Amos 7:7; Exodus 9:23–24
- 5 Psalm 85:4; Amos 7:2–3; Joel 2:17; Isaiah 10:25; Jeremiah 30:19
- 6 Jeremiah 26:19; Amos 7:3; Judges 10:16; Jonah 4:2; Psalm 135:14
- 7 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 28:17; Revelation 21:15; Zechariah 2:1–2; Revelation 11:1
- 8 Amos 8:2; Lamentations 2:8; Jeremiah 15:6; Ezekiel 7:2–9; Isaiah 28:17
- 9 2 Kings 15:8–10; Genesis 46:1; Amos 5:5; Isaiah 63:18; Amos 8:14
- 10 Jeremiah 38:4; 1 Kings 12:31–32; Jeremiah 26:8–11; Matthew 21:23; Acts 24:5
- 11 Amos 6:7–8; 2 Kings 17:6; Psalm 56:5; Amos 7:9; Acts 6:14
- 12 1 Corinthians 2:14; Matthew 8:34; Isaiah 30:10; 1 Samuel 9:9; Romans 16:18
- 13 1 Kings 12:32; Amos 2:12; 1 Kings 12:29; 1 Kings 13:1; Acts 5:40
- 14 Amos 1:1; Zechariah 13:5; 2 Kings 4:38; 2 Kings 2:5; 1 Corinthians 1:27
- 15 2 Samuel 7:8; Ezekiel 2:3–4; Jeremiah 1:7; Psalm 78:70–72; Matthew 9:9
- 16 Ezekiel 20:46; Ezekiel 21:2; Micah 2:6; Jeremiah 28:15–17; Deuteronomy 32:2
- 17 Hosea 9:3; 2 Kings 17:6; Ezekiel 4:13; Jeremiah 28:16; Hosea 4:13–14
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences