Amos 7

¹Thus hath the Lord God shewed vnto mee, and beholde, he formed grashoppers in the beginning of ye shooting vp of the latter grouth: and loe, it was in the latter grouth after the Kings mowing.

²And when they had made an ende of eating the grasse of the land, then I saide, O Lord God, spare, I beseeche thee: who shall raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.

³So the Lord repented for this. It shall not be, saith the Lord.

⁴Thus also hath the Lord God shewed vnto me, and behold, the Lord God called to iudgement by fire, and it deuoured the great deepe, and did eate vp a part.

⁵Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseeche thee: who shall raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.

⁶So the Lord repented for this. This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.

⁷Thus againe he shewed me, and behold, the Lord stoode vpon a wall made by line with a line in his hand.

⁸And the Lord saide vnto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A line. Then said the Lord, Beholde, I wil set a line in the middes of my people Israel, and wil passe by them no more.

⁹And the hye places of Izhak shalbe desolate, and the temples of Israel shalbe destroyed: and I wil rise against the house of Ieroboam with the sworde.

¹⁰Then Amaziah the Priest of Beth-el sent to Ieroboam King of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the middes of the house of Israel: the lande is not able to beare all his wordes.

¹¹For thus Amos saith, Ieroboam shall die by the sworde, and Israel shalbe led away captiue out of their owne land.