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Amos
Chapter 07
1``This is what the Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God showed me.
He
was creating {a plague of} locusts at the time
when
the late-sown crops were beginning to sprout -
the
late-sown crops after the king's reaping.
2``When
it had finished devouring the herbage in the land, I said,
"O
Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God, please/'I pray You' forgive.
How will Jacob survive? He is so small."
3`` Jehovah/God relented concerning this.
"It shall not come to pass," said Jehovah/God.
4``This
is what the Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God showed me:
Lo,
my Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God was summoning to contend by fire
which
consumed the great deep
and
was consuming the fields.
5``I said, "O Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God, please/'I pray You' refrain.
How will Jacob survive? He is so small."
6`` Jehovah/God relented concerning this.
This also shall not be, said the Lord/'Adonay Jehovah/God.
7``This
is what He showed me:
The
Lord/'Adonay was standing on a wall checked with a plumb line
and
He was holding a plumb line {surveying instruments}.
8-9``And Jehovah/God said unto me, "Amos, what do you see?"
And I said, "A plumb line."
Then
said the Lord/'Adonay, "Behold, I am going to apply a plumb line
to
My people Israel.
I will pardon them no more. 9``
The
shrines/'high places' of Isaac shall be laid waste,
and
the sanctuaries of Israel reduced to ruins.
And I will turn upon the House of Jeroboam with the sword."
10``Amaziah,
the priest of Bethel, sent this message
to
Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, "Amos is conspiring against you
with
the House of Israel.
The country cannot endure the things he is saying.
11``For
Amos has said, "Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and
Israel shall surely be 'led away captive'/exiled from its soil."
"
12-13``Amaziah
also said to Amos, "Seer, off with you . . .
to
the land of Judah!
'Earn
your living'/'eat your food' there,
and
do your prophesying there . . . 13``
but
don't ever prophesy again at Bethel . . .
for
it is the king's sanctuary and a royal palace."
14-15``
Then Amos answered Amaziah and said,
"I
am not a prophet and I am not a prophet's disciple.
I am a cattle breeder and a tender of sycamore figs. 15``
But
Jehovah/God took me from following the flock,
and
Jehovah/God said unto me, "Go, prophesy unto My people Israel."
16-17``
"And so, you 'hear, listen and obey' {shama`}
the
word/'doctrinal communication' {dabar} of Jehovah/God.
You
say I must not prophesy about {the house of} Israel,
or
preach about the house of Isaac . . . 17``
but
this I attest is what Jehovah/God said,
"Your
wife shall play the harlot in the town . . .
{means they will be taken and raped by an invading army}
your
sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword . . .
and
your land shall be divided by a measuring line . . .
{the new masters will divide up the spoils between themselves}
and
you yourself shall die in an unclean land . . .
for
Israel shall surely 'go into captivity'/'be exiled' from its soil/land."
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