Amos 7

koh hirani adonay Elohim vehinneh yotser govay bitkhillat alot hallaqesh vehinneh-leqesh akhar gizze hammelekh

This is what my Sovereign GOD showed me: [A plague of] locusts was created at the time when the late-sown crops were beginning to sprout—the late-sown crops after the king’s reaping.

vehayah im-killah le'ekhol et-esev ha'arets va'omar adonay Elohim selakh-na mi yaqum ya'aqov ki qaton hu

When it had finished devouring the herbage in the land, I said, “O my Sovereign, ETERNAL One, pray forgive. How will Jacob survive? He is so small.”

nikham Adonai al-zot lo tihyeh amar Adonai

GOD relented concerning this. “It shall not come to pass,” said GOD.

koh hirani adonay Elohim vehinneh qore lariv ba'esh adonay Elohim vattokhal et-tehom rabbah ve'okhlah et-hakheleq

This is what my Sovereign GOD showed me: Lo, my Sovereign GOD was summoning to contend by fire that consumed the Great Deep and was consuming the fields.

va'omar adonay Elohim khadal-na mi yaqum ya'aqov ki qaton hu

I said, “Oh, my Sovereign, ETERNAL One, refrain! How will Jacob survive? He is so small.”

nikham Adonai al-zot gam-hi lo tihyeh amar adonay Elohim

GOD relented concerning this. “That shall not come to pass, either,” said my Sovereign GOD.

koh hirani vehinneh adonay nitsav al-khomat anakh uveyado anakh

This is what I was shown: [God] was standing on a wall checked with a plumb line while holding a plumb line.

vayyomer Adonai elay mah-attah ro'eh amos va'omar anakh vayyomer adonay hinni sam anakh beqerev ammi yisra'el lo-osif od avor lo

And GOD asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” “A plumb line,” I replied. And my Sovereign declared, “I am going to apply a plumb line to My people Israel; I will pardon them no more.

venashammu bamot yiskhaq umiqdeshe yisra'el yekheravu veqamti al-bet yarovam bekharev

The shrines of Isaac shall be laid waste, and the sanctuaries of Israel reduced to ruins; and I will turn upon the House of Jeroboam with the sword.”

vayyishlakh amatsyah kohen bet-el el-yarovam melekh-yisra'el lemor qashar alekha amos beqerev bet yisra'el lo-tukhal ha'arets lehakhil et-kol-devarayw

Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent this message to King Jeroboam of Israel: “Amos is conspiring against you within the House of Israel. The country cannot endure the things he is saying.

ki-khoh amar amos bakherev yamut yarovam veyisra'el galoh yigleh me'al admato

For Amos has said, ‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be exiled from its soil.’”

vayyomer amatsyah el-amos khozeh lekh berakh-lekha el-erets yehudah ve'ekhol-sham lekhem vesham tinnave

Amaziah also said to Amos, “Seer, off with you to the land of Judah! Earn your living there, and do your prophesying there.

uvet-el lo-tosif od lehinnave ki miqdash-melekh hu uvet mamlakhah hu

But don’t ever prophesy again at Bethel; for it is a king’s sanctuary and a royal palace.”

vayya'an amos vayyomer el-amatsyah lo-navi anokhi velo ven-navi anokhi ki-voqer anokhi uvoles shiqmim

Amos answered Amaziah: “I am not a prophet, and I am not a prophet’s disciple. I am a cattle breeder and a tender of sycamore figs.

vayyiqqakheni Adonai me'akhare hatson vayyomer elay Adonai lekh hinnave el-ammi yisra'el

But GOD took me away from following the flock, and GOD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’

ve'attah shema devar-Adonai attah omer lo tinnave al-yisra'el velo tattif al-bet yiskhaq

And so, hear the word of GOD. You say I must not prophesy about the House of Israel or preach about the House of Isaac;

lakhen koh-amar Adonai ishtekha ba'ir tizneh uvanekha uvenotekha bakherev yippolu ve'admatekha bakhevel tekhullaq ve'attah al-adamah teme'ah tamut veyisra'el galoh yigleh me'al admato

but this, I swear, is what GOD said: Your wife shall play the whore in the town, your sons and daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line. And you yourself shall die on impure soil; for Israel shall be exiled from its soil.”