1 O SENHOR DEUS assim me fez ver, e eis que ele formava gafanhotos no princípio do rebento da erva serôdia, e eis que era a erva serôdia depois de findas as ceifas do rei.

2 E aconteceu que, tendo eles comido completamente a erva da terra, eu disse: Senhor DEUS, perdoa, rogo-te; quem levantará a Jacó? pois ele é pequeno.

3 Então o Senhor se arrependeu disso. Não acontecerá, disse o Senhor.

4 Assim me mostrou o Senhor DEUS: Eis que o Senhor DEUS clamava, para contender com fogo; este consumiu o grande abismo, e também uma parte da terra.

5 Então eu disse: Senhor Deus, cessa, eu te peço; quem levantará a Jacó? pois é pequeno.

6 E o SENHOR se arrependeu disso. Nem isso acontecerá, disse o Senhor DEUS.

7 Mostrou-me também assim: e eis que o Senhor estava sobre um muro, levantado a prumo; e tinha um prumo na sua mão.

8 E o Senhor me disse: Que vês tu, Amós? E eu disse: Um prumo. Então disse o Senhor: Eis que eu porei o prumo no meio do meu povo Israel; nunca mais passarei por ele.

9 Mas os altos de Isaque serão assolados, e destruídos os santuários de Israel; e levantar-me-ei com a espada contra a casa de Jeroboão.

10 Então Amazias, o sacerdote de Betel, mandou dizer a Jeroboão, rei de Israel: Amós tem conspirado contra ti, no meio da casa de Israel; a terra não poderá sofrer todas as suas palavras.

11 Porque assim diz Amós: Jeroboão morrerá à espada, e Israel certamente será levado para fora da sua terra em cativeiro.

12 Depois Amazias disse a Amós: Vai-te, ó vidente, e foge para a terra de Judá, e ali come o pão, e ali profetiza;

13 Mas em Betel daqui por diante não profetizes mais, porque é o santuário do rei e casa real.

14 E respondeu Amós, dizendo a Amazias: Eu não sou profeta, nem filho de profeta, mas boiadeiro, e cultivador de sicômoros.

15 Mas o Senhor me tirou de seguir o rebanho, e o Senhor me disse: Vai, e profetiza ao meu povo Israel.

16 Agora, pois, ouve a palavra do Senhor: Tu dizes: Não profetizes contra Israel, nem fales contra a casa de Isaque.

17 Portanto assim diz o Senhor: Tua mulher se prostituirá na cidade, e teus filhos e tuas filhas cairão à espada, e a tua terra será repartida a cordel, e tu morrerás na terra imunda, e Israel certamente será levado cativo para fora da sua terra.

1 This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.

2 And it came about that after they had taken all the grass of the land, I said, O Lord God, have mercy: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

3 The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.

4 This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.

5 Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

6 The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be.

7 This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand.

8 And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:

9 And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against the family of Jeroboam with the sword.

10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.

11 For Amos has said, Jeroboam will be put to the sword, and Israel will certainly be taken away as a prisoner out of his land.

12 And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:

13 But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.

14 Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:

15 And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.

16 Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.

17 So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.