Amos 7
7
First Vision: Locusts
1This is what Lord Yahweh revealed to me in a vision:
Behold! Just after the hay had been cut for the king, # 7:1 Although this custom is not mentioned anywhere else in the Old Testament, it has generally been understood to mean that the king was to be given the first mowing of spring hay for his horses.
when the new young grass started to grow again,
I saw Yahweh forming a swarm of mature locusts. # 7:1 See Joel 1:4. Amos chs. 7–9 include a compilation of five supernatural visions God revealed to his prophet.
2I watched as they began eating all the vegetation in the land,
so I pleaded with God, saying,
“Lord Yahweh, please forgive us, I beg you, # 7:2 Amos the prophet began to intercede for God’s forgiving grace. Intercession was and is one of the roles of a prophet. See Gen. 20:7; Jer. 15:1, 11; 18:20; Ezek. 9:8; Dan. 9:15–19. There are times that our intercession is meant to move God’s heart to prevent judgment from falling on a nation.
or we will not survive! # 7:2 Or “Jacob will not rise up.” Jacob is a metonymy for Israel.
Our nation is so helpless.” # 7:2 Or “small.”
3My prayer moved God’s heart to compassion.
Yahweh said: “It will not happen.”
Second Vision: The Drought
4In another vision, Yahweh revealed this to me:
Behold! He was calling for punishment by fire. # 7:4 That is, a devastating drought that would cover the land (i.e., the burning heat of the sun). See Joel 1:19–20; 2:3.
The scorching heat dried up
the deep sources of water beneath the land # 7:4 Or “It had devoured the great deep [abyss].” The people of the ancient Near East believed that a great ocean lay deep beneath the ground and occasionally sprang up to the surface. See Gen. 2:6; 7:11; 49:25; Ps. 36:6; Isa. 51:10.
and made the farmlands like dust.
5So I pleaded with God, saying,
“Lord Yahweh, please don’t do this, I beg you,
or we will not survive!
Our nation is so helpless.”
6Because of my prayer,
God’s heart was stirred with compassion.
“This also will not happen,” said Yahweh.
Third Vision: The Plumb Line
7Lord Yahweh revealed this to me in another vision:
I saw the Lord standing by a wall built true to plumb,
holding a plumb line in his hand. # 7:7 A plumb line is a cord with a lead weight used by builders to be sure that walls are straight up and down. The Lord standing with a plumb line indicates he is coming to measure his people to make sure their standards are true and pure. See 2 Kings 21:13; Isa. 28:17; 34:11; Lam. 2:8.
8“Amos, what do you see?” Yahweh asked me.
“A plumb line,” I replied.
Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am about to set a plumb line
up against my people Israel to test them.
Never again will I look the other way when they sin.
9I will destroy the high places
where Isaac’s descendants worship, # 7:9 The high places of Isaac may refer to the sanctuary of Beersheba. Perhaps Isaac is mentioned because he was offered to God on an altar on a mountain; in Amos’ time, Israel was worshiping false gods on mountain altars. The high places were originally simply burial mounds where people would come with worship related to dead people, but later this developed into a fertility cult. See W. F. Albright, The High Place in Ancient Palestine, Volume du congrès Strasbourg 1956, Supplements to Vetus Testamentum IV (Leiden: 1957), 242–58.
and I will ruin the holy places of Israel.
With my sword in hand,
I will attack the dynasty of Jeroboam.”
Amaziah Challenges Amos
10Then Amaziah the chief priest of Bethel sent the following message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you in the very heart of Israel. We cannot stand his speeches! 11For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam is going to die by the sword, # 7:11 Indeed, Jeroboam and his son Zechariah met with violent deaths (see 2 Kings 15:10). and Israel will go into captivity far from its native land.’ ”
12Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer. Why don’t you escape to Judah while there is time? You can always prophesy there and make your living. 13But don’t stay around here and prophesy at Bethel anymore. This is the national temple, the place where the king worships.”
14Amos replied, “I am not a prophet, nor am I one of the sons of the prophets. I am merely a rancher, and I cultivate fig trees. 15But one day, Yahweh called me as I was managing my flocks and said to me, ‘Go and prophesy to my people Israel.’
16“So now, Amaziah, listen to what Yahweh says.
You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not prophesy doom on Isaac’s descendants!’
17Very well. This is what Yahweh says:
‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets,
and your sons and daughters will fall in battle.
Your land will be measured, divided up, and given to others.
And you yourself will die in a pagan land,
and Israel will go into captivity far from its own land!’ ” # 7:17 Amos had absolutely no fear of the leading figures of the Northern Kingdom.
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7
First Vision: Locusts
1This is what Lord Yahweh revealed to me in a vision:
Behold! Just after the hay had been cut for the king, # 7:1 Although this custom is not mentioned anywhere else in the Old Testament, it has generally been understood to mean that the king was to be given the first mowing of spring hay for his horses.
when the new young grass started to grow again,
I saw Yahweh forming a swarm of mature locusts. # 7:1 See Joel 1:4. Amos chs. 7–9 include a compilation of five supernatural visions God revealed to his prophet.
2I watched as they began eating all the vegetation in the land,
so I pleaded with God, saying,
“Lord Yahweh, please forgive us, I beg you, # 7:2 Amos the prophet began to intercede for God’s forgiving grace. Intercession was and is one of the roles of a prophet. See Gen. 20:7; Jer. 15:1, 11; 18:20; Ezek. 9:8; Dan. 9:15–19. There are times that our intercession is meant to move God’s heart to prevent judgment from falling on a nation.
or we will not survive! # 7:2 Or “Jacob will not rise up.” Jacob is a metonymy for Israel.
Our nation is so helpless.” # 7:2 Or “small.”
3My prayer moved God’s heart to compassion.
Yahweh said: “It will not happen.”
Second Vision: The Drought
4In another vision, Yahweh revealed this to me:
Behold! He was calling for punishment by fire. # 7:4 That is, a devastating drought that would cover the land (i.e., the burning heat of the sun). See Joel 1:19–20; 2:3.
The scorching heat dried up
the deep sources of water beneath the land # 7:4 Or “It had devoured the great deep [abyss].” The people of the ancient Near East believed that a great ocean lay deep beneath the ground and occasionally sprang up to the surface. See Gen. 2:6; 7:11; 49:25; Ps. 36:6; Isa. 51:10.
and made the farmlands like dust.
5So I pleaded with God, saying,
“Lord Yahweh, please don’t do this, I beg you,
or we will not survive!
Our nation is so helpless.”
6Because of my prayer,
God’s heart was stirred with compassion.
“This also will not happen,” said Yahweh.
Third Vision: The Plumb Line
7Lord Yahweh revealed this to me in another vision:
I saw the Lord standing by a wall built true to plumb,
holding a plumb line in his hand. # 7:7 A plumb line is a cord with a lead weight used by builders to be sure that walls are straight up and down. The Lord standing with a plumb line indicates he is coming to measure his people to make sure their standards are true and pure. See 2 Kings 21:13; Isa. 28:17; 34:11; Lam. 2:8.
8“Amos, what do you see?” Yahweh asked me.
“A plumb line,” I replied.
Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am about to set a plumb line
up against my people Israel to test them.
Never again will I look the other way when they sin.
9I will destroy the high places
where Isaac’s descendants worship, # 7:9 The high places of Isaac may refer to the sanctuary of Beersheba. Perhaps Isaac is mentioned because he was offered to God on an altar on a mountain; in Amos’ time, Israel was worshiping false gods on mountain altars. The high places were originally simply burial mounds where people would come with worship related to dead people, but later this developed into a fertility cult. See W. F. Albright, The High Place in Ancient Palestine, Volume du congrès Strasbourg 1956, Supplements to Vetus Testamentum IV (Leiden: 1957), 242–58.
and I will ruin the holy places of Israel.
With my sword in hand,
I will attack the dynasty of Jeroboam.”
Amaziah Challenges Amos
10Then Amaziah the chief priest of Bethel sent the following message to Jeroboam king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you in the very heart of Israel. We cannot stand his speeches! 11For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam is going to die by the sword, # 7:11 Indeed, Jeroboam and his son Zechariah met with violent deaths (see 2 Kings 15:10). and Israel will go into captivity far from its native land.’ ”
12Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer. Why don’t you escape to Judah while there is time? You can always prophesy there and make your living. 13But don’t stay around here and prophesy at Bethel anymore. This is the national temple, the place where the king worships.”
14Amos replied, “I am not a prophet, nor am I one of the sons of the prophets. I am merely a rancher, and I cultivate fig trees. 15But one day, Yahweh called me as I was managing my flocks and said to me, ‘Go and prophesy to my people Israel.’
16“So now, Amaziah, listen to what Yahweh says.
You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel,
and do not prophesy doom on Isaac’s descendants!’
17Very well. This is what Yahweh says:
‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets,
and your sons and daughters will fall in battle.
Your land will be measured, divided up, and given to others.
And you yourself will die in a pagan land,
and Israel will go into captivity far from its own land!’ ” # 7:17 Amos had absolutely no fear of the leading figures of the Northern Kingdom.
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