7:12 Amaziah then said to Amos, “Leave, you visionary! 1 Run away to the land of Judah! Earn your living 2 and prophesy there! 7:13 Don’t prophesy at Bethel 3 any longer, for a royal temple and palace are here!” 4
7:14 Amos replied 5 to Amaziah, “I was not a prophet by profession. 6 No, 7 I was a herdsman who also took care of 8 sycamore fig trees. 9 7:15 Then the Lord took me from tending 10 flocks and gave me this commission, 11 ‘Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!’ 7:16 So now listen to the Lord’s message! You say, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach 12 against the family of Isaac!’
7:17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:
‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets 13
and your sons and daughters will die violently. 14
Your land will be given to others 15
and you will die in a foreign 16 land.
Israel will certainly be carried into exile 17 away from its land.’”