English Bible Presentation Sharing - Amos Book, chapter 7, verse 6 in Hcsb Version

Amos 7 : 1 (HCSB)

The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout-- after the cutting of the king's hay.

Amos 7 : 2 (HCSB)

When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, "Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?"

Amos 7 : 3 (HCSB)

The LORD relented concerning this. "It will not happen," He said.

Amos 7 : 4 (HCSB)

The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

Amos 7 : 5 (HCSB)

Then I said, "Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?"

Amos 7 : 6 (HCSB)

The LORD relented concerning this. "This will not happen either," said the Lord God.

Amos 7 : 7 (HCSB)

He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.

Amos 7 : 8 (HCSB)

The LORD asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" I replied, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

Amos 7 : 9 (HCSB)

Isaac's high places will be deserted, and Israel's sanctuaries will be in ruins; I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword."

Amos 7 : 10 (HCSB)

Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent *word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you right here in the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words,

Amos 7 : 11 (HCSB)

for Amos has said this: 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.'"

Amos 7 : 12 (HCSB)

Then Amaziah said to Amos, "Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah. Earn your living and give *your prophecies there,

Amos 7 : 13 (HCSB)

but don't ever prophesy at Bethel again, for it is the king's sanctuary and a royal temple."

Amos 7 : 14 (HCSB)

So Amos answered Amaziah, "I was not a prophet or the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman, and I took care of sycamore figs.

Amos 7 : 15 (HCSB)

But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to My people Israel.'"

Amos 7 : 16 (HCSB)

Now hear the word of the LORD. You say: Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.

Amos 7 : 17 (HCSB)

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided up with a measuring line. You yourself will die on pagan soil, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.