14FOR HERE I [AM] ABOUT TO RAISE UP ON YOU O HOUSE OF ISRAEL [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH [THE] GOD OF <THE> HOSTS A NATION AND THEY WILL OPPRESS <OBJ.> YOU FROM LEBO HAMATH TO [THE] WADI OF <THE> ARABAH 14For behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
1THUS HE SHOWED ME [THE] LORD YAHWEH AND THERE! [HE WAS] FORMING LOCUSTS AT [THE] BEGINNING OF [THE] COMING UP OF THE SPRING-CROP AND THERE! A SPRING-CROP AFTER [THE] MOWINGS OF THE KING The Locusts, Fire, and Plumb Line (Joel 2:1–11) 1This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.*NoteCloseLXX A swarm of locusts coming from the east; and, behold, one grasshopper, king Gog.
2AND IT WILL BE IF IT HAD FINISHED TO EAT <OBJ.> [THE] VEGETATION OF THE LAND AND I SAID O LORD YAHWEH FORGIVE PLEASE WHO? WILL HE STAND JACOB FOR [IS] SMALL HE 2And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
3HE RELENTED YAHWEH ON THIS NOT IT WILL BE HE SAID YAHWEH 3So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
4THUS HE SHOWED ME [THE] LORD YAHWEH AND THERE! [WAS] CALLING FOR CONDUCTING A CASE BY <THE> FIRE [THE] LORD YAHWEH AND IT CONSUMED <OBJ.> [THE] DEEP GREAT AND IT CONSUMED <OBJ.> THE PORTION OF LAND 4This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
5AND I SAID O LORD YAHWEH CEASE PLEASE WHO? WILL HE STAND JACOB FOR [IS] SMALL HE 5Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
6HE RELENTED YAHWEH ON THIS ALSO IT NOT IT WILL BE HE SAID [THE] LORD YAHWEH 6So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
7THUS HE SHOWED ME AND THERE! [THE] LORD [WAS] STANDING ON A WALL OF TIN AND [WAS] IN HAND HIS TIN 7This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.
8AND HE SAID YAHWEH TO ME WHAT? [ARE] YOU SEEING O AMOS AND I SAID TIN AND HE SAID [THE] LORD HERE I [AM] ABOUT TO PUT TIN IN [THE] MIDST OF PEOPLE MY ISRAEL NOT I WILL REPEAT AGAIN TO PASS BY <TO> IT 8“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
9AND THEY WILL BE MADE DESOLATE [THE] HIGH PLACES OF ISAAC AND [THE] SANCTUARIES OF ISRAEL THEY WILL BE WASTE AND I WILL ARISE ON [THE] HOUSE OF JEROBOAM WITH THE SWORD 9The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”
10AND HE SENT AMAZIAH [THE] PRIEST OF BETH- -EL TO JEROBOAM [THE] KING OF ISRAEL <TO> SAYING HE HAS CONSPIRED ON YOU AMOS IN [THE] MIDST OF [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL NOT IT IS ABLE THE LAND TO ENDURE <OBJ.> ALL WORDS HIS Amaziah Accuses Amos 10Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,
11FOR THUS HE HAS SAID AMOS BY THE SWORD HE WILL DIE JEROBOAM AND ISRAEL CERTAINLY <GO INTO EXILE> IT WILL GO INTO EXILE FROM ON LAND ITS 11for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
12AND HE SAID AMAZIAH TO AMOS O SEER GO FLEE <FOR> YOURSELF TO [THE] LAND OF JUDAH AND EAT THERE BREAD AND THERE YOU WILL PROPHESY 12And Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.
13AND BETH- -EL NOT YOU MUST REPEAT AGAIN TO PROPHESY FOR [IS] A SANCTUARY OF A KING IT AND [IS] A HOUSE OF KINGDOM IT 13But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom
14AND HE ANSWERED AMOS AND HE SAID TO AMAZIAH NOT [AM] A PROPHET I AND NOT [AM] A SON OF A PROPHET I FOR [WAS] A HERDSMAN I AND A FIG PICKER OF SYCAMORES 14“I was not*NoteCloseOr I am not a prophet,” Amos replied “nor was I the son*NoteCloseOr nor am I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
15AND HE TOOK ME YAHWEH FROM AFTER THE FLOCK AND HE SAID TO ME YAHWEH GO PROPHESY TO PEOPLE MY ISRAEL 15But the LORD took me from following the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My people Israel.’
16AND THEREFORE HEAR [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH YOU [ARE] SAYING NOT YOU MUST PROPHESY ON ISRAEL AND NOT YOU MUST PROPHESY ON [THE] HOUSE OF ISAAC 16Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.’
17<TO> THEREFORE THUS HE SAYS YAHWEH WIFE YOUR IN THE CITY SHE WILL BE A PROSTITUTE AND SONS YOUR AND DAUGHTERS YOUR BY THE SWORD THEY WILL FALL AND LAND YOUR WITH <THE> MEASURING-LINE IT WILL BE DIVIDED AND YOU ON GROUND UNCLEAN YOU WILL DIE AND ISRAEL CERTAINLY <GO INTO EXILE> IT WILL GO INTO EXILE FROM ON LAND ITS 17Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan*NoteCloseHebrew unclean soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”