1<\/sup>These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the locust was formed in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter rain, and lo, it was the latter rain after the king's mowing.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob, for he is very little?<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part at the same time.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not be, said the Lord God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>And the Lord said to me: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A mason's trowel. And the Lord said: Behold, I will lay down the trowel in the midst of my people Israel. I will plaster them over no more.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>And the high places of the idol shall be thrown down, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste: and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: Amos hath rebelled against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>For thus saith Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be carried away captive out of their own land.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>And Amasias said to Amos: Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet: but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>And now hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, thou shalt not prophesy against Israel, and thou shalt not drop thy word upon the house of the idol.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Therefore thus saith the Lord: Thy wife shall play the harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be measured by a line: and thou shalt die in a polluted land, and Israel shall go into captivity out of their land.<\/span> <\/p>\n