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Amos 7
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| 7:1
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he
formed grasshoppers
in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was
the latter growth after the king's mowings. |
(7:1-2)
In the first of Amos' visions, God makes some
grasshoppers and sends them to devour the peoples' crops.
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| 7:2
And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of
the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall
Jacob arise? for he is small. |
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| 7:3
The LORD repented for
this: It shall not be, saith the LORD. |
(7:3, 6)
"The LORD repented for this."
Does God repent?
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| 7:4
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD
called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
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Next God sends a fire that consumes both land and sea.
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| 7:5
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise?
for he is small. |
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| 7:6
The LORD repented for
this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. |
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| 7:7
Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the LORD stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a
plumbline in his hand. |
"The LORD stood upon a wall ... with a plumbline in his hand."
God stands on a wall holding a plumb line while he talks to Amos.
Can God be seen?
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| 7:8
And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline.
Then said the LORD, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people
Israel: I will not again pass by them any more: |
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| 7:9
And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of
Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam
with the sword. |
(7:9-11)
God will kill the house of Jeroboam with the sword, and force the Israelites
into captivity.
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| 7:10
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying,
Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the
land is not able to bear all his words. |
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| 7:11
For thus Amos saith, Jeroboam shall die by the sword,
and Israel shall
surely be led away captive out of their own land. |
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| 7:12
Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land
of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: |
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| 7:13
But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel,
and it is the king's court. |
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| 7:14
Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a
prophet's son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: |
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| 7:15
And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me,
Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. |
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| 7:16
Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not
against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac. |
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| 7:17
Therefore thus saith the LORD;
Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city,
and thy sons and thy daughters
shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall
be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall
surely go into captivity forth of his land.
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"Thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot."
Amos tells Amaziah that his wife will become a whore, his children will be
killed, and he'll die in a pagan country. There is no evidence in the Bible (or anywhere else) that
any of these things occurred.
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