1 This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.
2 And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
3 The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.
4 This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.
5 Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
6 The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be.
7 This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand.
8 And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:
9 And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against the family of Jeroboam with the sword.
10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.
11 For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his land.
12 And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:
13 But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.
14 Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:
15 And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.
16 Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.
17 So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.
1 主耶和华向我这样显示： 看哪！ 替王收割之后， 田产又开始生长时， 主造出一群蝗虫。
2 蝗虫吃尽地上的农产时， 我说： "主耶和华啊！ 求你宽恕， 因雅各太弱小， 怎能站立得住呢？"
3 耶和华对这事改变心意， 耶和华说： "这事不会发生。"
4 主耶和华向我这样显示： 看哪！ 主耶和华召来刑罚的火， 烧毁广大的深渊和以色列的地业。
5 因此我对主耶和华说： "求你停止吧！ 因雅各太弱小， 怎能站立得住呢？"
6 耶和华对这事改变心意。主耶和华说： "这事也不会发生。"
7 他向我这样显示： 看哪！ 主站在一道按准绳建造的墙旁边， 手里拿着准绳。
8 耶和华对我说： "阿摩司， 你看见什么？"我回答： "我看见准绳。"主又说： "看哪！ 我把准绳放在我民以色列中间， 必不再放过他们。
9 以撒的各邱坛必荒废， 以色列所有的圣所必废弃； 我必起来用刀击杀耶罗波安家。"
10 伯特利的祭司亚玛谢派人向以色列王耶罗波安报告： "阿摩司在以色列家中图谋背叛你， 这国家不能容忍他说的话；
11 因为阿摩司这样说： ‘耶罗波安必死在刀下， 以色列必被掳， 离开本国。’"
12 亚玛谢对阿摩司说： "你这个先见， 走吧！ 滚回犹大地去； 在那里你可以找食， 在那里你可以说预言。
13 但不要再在伯特利说预言， 因为这里是王的圣所， 是王国的圣殿。"
14 阿摩司回答亚玛谢说： "我原不是先知， 也不是先知的门徒； 我本是牧人， 是修理桑树的，
15 但耶和华选召我， 叫我不再跟随羊群； 他对我说： ‘你去， 向我民以色列说预言。’
16 现在你要听耶和华的话； 因为你说： ‘不要说预言攻击以色列， 不要说攻击以撒家的话。’
17 所以， 耶和华这样说： ‘你妻子必在城中作妓女， 你的儿女必倒在刀下； 你的土地必被人量度瓜分， 你自己必死在不洁之地； 以色列必被掳， 离开本国。’"