Amos 7
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.
3 Hashem 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.
6 Hashem 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#7:8 and spare them anymore;
9And the high places of Yischak shall be desolate, and the mikdeshei Yisroel#7:9 i.e., heathen sanctuaries 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).
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