Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me, and there He was, forming  ¹locusts in the beginning of the springing up of the spring crop; and it was the spring crop after the king's mowings.

And when their eating of the herbage of the land was complete, I said,  ¹O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I beseech You! How will Jacob stand, for he is small?

Jehovah repented concerning this: It shall not be, says Jehovah.

Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me, and there the Lord Jehovah was, calling to contend with them with fire; and it devoured the great deep, and it devoured the land.

Then I said, O Lord Jehovah, Stop, I beseech You! How will Jacob stand, for he is small?

Jehovah repented concerning this: This also shall not be, says the Lord Jehovah.

Thus He showed me, and there the Lord was, standing upon a perfectly plumbed wall; and in His hand was a  ¹plumb line.

And Jehovah said to me, What do you see, Amos? And I said, A plumb line. And the Lord said, I am now setting a plumb line in the midst of My people Israel; I will not pass them by anymore.

And the  ¹high places of Isaac will be desolated,
And the sanctuaries of Israel will be made waste;
And I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.

Then Amaziah the  ¹priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam the king of Israel, saying, Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to endure all his words.

For thus says Amos, By the sword Jeroboam will die, and Israel will surely go into captivity out from its land.

Then Amaziah said to Amos, Go, you seer; flee into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there;

But in Bethel you shall not ever prophesy again, for it is the king's sanctuary and it is the royal residence.

Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet; rather I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamores.

And Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said to me, Go, prophesy to My people Israel.

And now hear the word of Jehovah: You say, You shall not prophesy against Israel, nor shall you speak against the house of Isaac.

Therefore thus says Jehovah,
Your wife will go about as a harlot in the city,
And your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword,
And your land will be divided by the line,
And you yourself will die in a land that is unclean;
And Israel will indeed go into captivity
Out from its land.

Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me, and there was a basket of  ¹summer fruit.

And He said, What do you see, Amos? And I said, A basket of summer fruit.
Then Jehovah said to me,
The end has come upon My people Israel;
I will not pass them by anymore.

And the songs of the temple will be wailings
In that day, declares the Lord Jehovah.
The corpses will be many;
In every place
They will cast them. Hush!

Hear this, you who pant after the needy
To destroy the wretched of the earth,

Saying, When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain?
And the Sabbath, that we may lay open the wheat?
In order to make the ephah small and the shekel large
And to falsify the balances for deceit;

That we may buy the poor for silver
And the needy for a pair of sandals,
And sell the refuse of the wheat.

Jehovah has sworn by the excellency of Jacob,
I shall by no means forget any of their deeds forever.

Will the land not quake because of this,
And will all who dwell in it not mourn?
Indeed all of it will rise up like the  ¹River,
And it will be driven and will sink like the river of Egypt.

And in that day,
Declares the Lord Jehovah,
I will cause the sun to go down at noon,
And I will darken the land in the light of day.

And I will turn your feasts into mourning
And all your songs into lamentation;
And I will bring up sackcloth upon all the loins
And baldness upon every head;
And I will make it like the mourning for an only child
And the end of it like a bitter day.

Indeed days are coming,
Declares the Lord Jehovah,
When I will send a hunger into the land,
Not a hunger for bread
Nor a thirst for water,
But for hearing the  ¹words of Jehovah.

And they will totter from sea to sea,
And from the north even to the east;
They will rove about, seeking the word of Jehovah,
But they will not find it.

In that day the beautiful virgins and the young men
Will swoon because of thirst.

They who swear by the trespass of Samaria
And say, As your god lives, O Dan!
And, As the way of Beer-sheba lives!
Indeed they will fall and not rise up again.

I saw the Lord  ¹standing upon the altar. And He said,
Strike the capitals of the pillars
That the thresholds may shake.
And break them off upon the heads of them all,
And the last of them I will slay with the sword:
Any one of them who flees will not flee away,
And any one of them who escapes will not slip by.

Though they dig into  ¹Sheol,
From there My hand will take them;
And though they go up into heaven,
From there I will bring them down.

And though they hide at the top of Carmel,
From there I will seek them and take them.
And though they hide themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea,
There I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

And though they go into captivity before their enemies,
There I will command the sword, and it will slay them;
And I will set My eyes upon them
For evil and not for good.

For the Lord Jehovah of hosts
Is the One who touches the land and it melts,
And all those who dwell in it mourn;
And all of it rises like the  ¹River,
And it sinks like the river of Egypt.

He is the One who builds His upper stories in the heavens
And has founded His vault over the earth;
He is the One who calls for the water of the sea
And pours it upon the surface of the earth;
Jehovah is His name.

Are you not like the children of the  ¹Cushites
To Me, O children of Israel?
Declares Jehovah.
Have I not brought up Israel
Out from the land of Egypt,
And the Philistines out from  ²Caphtor,
And  ³Aram out from Kir?

Yes, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah
Are on the sinful kingdom,
And I will destroy it
From off the face of the earth,
Except that I will not  ¹utterly destroy the house of Jacob,
Declares Jehovah.

For I will command
And shake the house of Israel among all the nations,
As grain is shaken in the sieve;
Yet a kernel will not fall to the ground.

All the sinners of My people
Will die by the sword,
Those who say, Evil will not overtake us
Nor come before us on all sides.

In that day I will raise up
The fallen  ¹tabernacle of David,
And I will wall up its breaches
And raise up its ruins
And build it up as it was in the days of old;

That they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations which are called by My name, declares Jehovah who does this.

Indeed days are coming,
Declares Jehovah,
When the plowman will overtake the reaper,
And the grape treader, him who sows the seed;
And the mountains will drip sweet wine,
And all the hills will melt.

And I will turn the captivity of My people Israel,
And they will build the desolated cities and inhabit them;
And they will plant vineyards and drink the wine from them,
And make gardens and eat the fruit from them.

And I will plant them upon their land, and they will not be plucked up again from their land, which I have given to them, says Jehovah your God.