| New International Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts after the king's share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. | 1Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, He was forming a locust-swarm when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king's mowing. |
| 2When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, "Sovereign LORD, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!" | 2And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said, "Lord GOD, please pardon! How can Jacob stand, For he is small?" |
| 3So the LORD relented. "This will not happen," the LORD said. | 3The LORD changed His mind about this. "It shall not be," said the LORD. |
| 4This is what the Sovereign LORD showed me: The Sovereign LORD was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land. | 4Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, the Lord GOD was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farm land. |
| 5Then I cried out, "Sovereign LORD, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!" | 5Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?" |
| 6So the LORD relented. "This will not happen either," the Sovereign LORD said. | 6The LORD changed His mind about this. "This too shall not be," said the Lord GOD. |
| 7This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. | 7Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand. |
| 8And the LORD asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" "A plumb line," I replied. Then the Lord said, "Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer. | 8The LORD said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold I am about to put a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel. I will spare them no longer. |
| 9"The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam." | 9"The high places of Isaac will be desolated And the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste. Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." |
| 10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: "Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words. | 10Then 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 is unable to endure all his words. |
| 11For this is what Amos is saying: "'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.'" | 11"For thus Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'" |
| 12Then Amaziah said to Amos, "Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. | 12Then Amaziah said to Amos, "Go, you seer, flee away to the land of Judah and there eat bread and there do your prophesying! |
| 13Don't prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king's sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom." | 13"But no longer prophesy at Bethel, for it is a sanctuary of the king and a royal residence." |
| 14Amos answered Amaziah, "I was neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees. | 14Then Amos replied to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore figs. |
| 15But the LORD took me from tending the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.' | 15"But the LORD took me from following the flock and the LORD said to me, 'Go prophesy to My people Israel.' |
| 16Now then, hear the word of the LORD. You say, "'Do not prophesy against Israel, and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.' | 16"Now hear the word of the LORD: you are saying, 'You shall not prophesy against Israel nor shall you speak against the house of Isaac.' |
| 17"Therefore this is what the LORD says: "'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a pagan country. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.'" | 17"Therefore, thus says the LORD, 'Your wife will become a harlot in the city, your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be parceled up by a measuring line and you yourself will die upon unclean soil. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.'" |
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