[6:10] "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.'
[6:11] "For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits. [6:12] Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness; [6:13] you who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, 'Haven't we taken for ourselves horns by our own strength?' [6:14] For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," says Yahweh, the God of Armies; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah."
[7:1] Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest. [7:2] It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, "Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
[7:3] Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.
[7:4] Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land. [7:5] Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
[7:6] Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.
[7:7] Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. [7:8] Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?"
I said, "A plumb line."
Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more. [7:9] The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."
[7:10] Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words. [7:11] For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'"