Amos 7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Amos 7Locusts, Fire, and a Plumb Line

1 no prophet nor a prophet’s son, but I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore trees,

152 Sam 7.8; Jer 7.1; Ezek 2.3, 4; Am 3.8and the Lord took me from following the flock, and the Lord said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

16 Ezek 21.2; Am 2.12; Mic 2.6 “Now therefore hear the word of the Lord.

You say, ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,

and do not preach against the house of Isaac.’

17 Jer 14.16; 29.21; Ezek 4.13; Hos 4.13, 14; 9.3 Therefore thus says the Lord:

Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city,

and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,

and your land shall be parceled out by line;

you yourself shall die in an unclean land,

and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.”