Amos 7

¹Thus hath Adonoi Hashem showed unto me; and, hinei, He formed locusts in the beginning of the springing up of the second crop; and, hinei, it was the second crop after the mowing of the melech.

²And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the vegetation of ha'aretz, then I said:

O Adonoi Hashem , forgive, I beseech thee;

how shall Ya'akov survive? For he is katon.

³Hashem relented for this:

It shall not be, saith Hashem .

⁴Thus hath Adonoi Hashem showed unto me; and, hinei, Adonoi Hashem called to punish with eish, and it devoured the tehom rabbah (great deep) , and did devour the chelek (portion) .

⁵Then said I:

O Adonoi Hashem , cease, I beseech thee;

how shall Ya'akov survive? For he is katon.

⁶Hashem relented for this:

This also shall not be, saith Adonoi Hashem .

⁷Thus He showed me; and, hinei, Hashem stood upon a chomah (wall) made with a plumb line, and a plumb line in His hand.

⁸And Hashem said unto me: Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line. Then said Hashem :

Hineni, I will set a plumb line

in the midst of My people Yisroel;

I will not again pass by them anymore;

⁹And the high places of Yischak shall be desolate,

and the mikdeshei Yisroel shall be laid waste;

and I will rise against the Bais Yarov'am with the cherev.

¹⁰Then Amatzyah the kohen of Beit-El sent to Yarov'am Melech Yisroel, saying: Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of Bais Yisroel; the land is not able to bear all his words.

¹¹For thus Amos saith:

Yarov'am shall die by the cherev,

and Yisroel shall surely be led away

into the golus out of their own land.

¹²Also Amatzyah said unto Amos: O thou seer, go, flee thee away into Eretz Yehudah, and there eat lechem, and prophesy there,

¹³But prophesy not again any more at Beit-El; for it is the Mikdash Melech, and it is the Bais Mamlachah.

¹⁴Then answered Amos, and said to Amatzyah: I was no navi, neither was I a ben navi; but I was a herder, and a dresser of sycamore-fig trees;

¹⁵And Hashem took me as I followed the tzon, and Hashem said unto me: Go, prophesy unto My people Yisroel.

¹⁶Now therefore hear thou the Devar Hashem : Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Yisroel, and drop not thy word against the Bais Yischak.

¹⁷Therefore thus saith Hashem :

Thy isha shall be a zonah in the city,

and thy banim and thy banot shall fall by the cherev,

and thy land shall be divided by line;

and thou shalt die in an adamah temei'ah (unclean land) ;

and Yisroel shall surely go forth of his land into golus (exile) .