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Amos 7

God sheweth certain visions, whereby he signifieth the destruction of the people of Israél. 10 The false accusation of Amaziáh 12 His crafty counsel.
1.Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me, and behold, he formed agreshoppers in the beginning of the shutting up of the latter growth: and lo, it was in the latter growth bafter the King’s mowing.
2.And when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, spare, I beseech thee: who shal raise up Jaakób? for he is small.
3.So the Lord crepented for this. It shal not be, saith the Lord.
4.¶ Thus also hath the Lord God shewed unto me, and behold, the Lord God called to judgement by fire, dand it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
5.Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: who shal raise up Jaakób? for he is small.
6.So the Lord repented for this. This also shal not be, saith the Lord God.
7.¶ Thus again he shewed me, and behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by line ewith a line in his hand.
8.And the Lord said unto me, Amós, what seest thou? And I said, A line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a line in the middes of my people Israél, and will pass by them no more.
9.And the hie places of Ishák shalbe desolate, and the temples of Israél shalbe destroyed: and I will rise against the house of Jeroboám with the sword.
10.fThen Amaziáh the Priest of Beth-él sent to Jeroboám King of Israél, saying, Amós hath conspired against thee in the middes of the house of Israél: the land is not able to bear all his words.
11.For thus Amós saith, Jeroboám shal die by the sword, and Israél shalbe led away captive out of their own land.
12.Also gAmaziáh said unto Amós, O thou the Seer, go, flee thou away into the land of Judáh, and there eat thy bread and prophecie there.
13.But prophecie no more at Beth-él: for it is the King’s chapel, and it, is the King’s court.
14.Then answered Amós, and said to Amaziáh, I was no hProphet, neither was I a Prophet’s son, but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of wild figs.
15.And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophecie unto my people Israél.
16.Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord. Thou saist, Prophecie not against Israél, and speak nothing against the house of Ishák.
17.Therefore thus saith the Lord, iThy wife shal be an harlot in the city, & thy sons and thy daughters shal fall by the sword, and thy land shalbe divided by line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israél shal surely go into captivity forth of his land.

Notes

1-a.
To devour the land: and he alludes to the invading of the enemies.
1-b.
After the public commandment for mowing was given: or as some read, when the King’s sheep were shorn.
3-c.
That is, stayed this plague at my prayer.
4-d.
Meaning, that God’s indignation was inflamed against the stubborn- ness of this people.
7-e.
Signifying that this should be the last measuring of the people, and that he would defer his judgement no longer.
10-f.
That is, when Amos had prophecied that the King should be destroyed: for this wicked Priest more for hatred he bare to the Prophet then for love toward the King, thought this accusation sufficient to condemn him, where as none other could take place.
12-g.
When this instrument of Satan was not able to compass his purpose by the King, he assayed by another practice: that was, to fear the Prophet, that he might depart, and not reprove their idolatry there openly, and so hinder his profit.
14-h.
Thus he shows by his extraordinary vocation, that God had given him a charge which he must needs execute.
17-i.
Thus God used to approve the authority of his Prophets by his plagues and judgements against them, which were malicious enemies, Jer. 28.12 and 29.21 and 25 as this day he does against them that persecute the ministers of his Gospel.