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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Amos 7 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/amos/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/amos/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Amos 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../amos/6.htm" title="Amos 6">◄</a> Amos 7 <a href="../amos/8.htm" title="Amos 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/amos/7-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Locusts, Fire, and Plumb Line<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Thus has the Lord God shewed me; and, behold, a swarm of locusts coming from the east; and, behold, one caterpillar, king Gog.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And it came to pass when he had finished devouring the grass of the land, that I said, Lord God, be merciful; who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Repent, O Lord, for this. And this shall not be, saith the Lord.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Thus has the Lord shewed me; and, behold, the Lord called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and devoured the Lord's portion.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Then I said, O Lord, cease, I pray thee: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number. Repent, O Lord, for this.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>This also shall not be, saith the Lord.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Thus the Lord shewed me; and behold, he stood upon a wall of adamant, and in his hand <i>was</i> an adamant.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the Lord said to me, What seest thou, Amos? And I said, An adamant. And the Lord said to me, Behold, I appoint an adamant in the midst of my people Israel: I will not pass by them any more.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the joyful altars shall be abolished, and the sacrifices of Israel shall be set aside; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Amaziah Accuses Amos<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos is forming conspiracies against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land will be utterly unable to bear all his words. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For thus says Amos, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be led away captive from his land. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Amasias said to Amos, Go, seer, remove thou into the land of Juda, and live there, and thou shalt prophesy there: <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>but thou shalt no longer prophesy at Bethel: for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the royal house.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Amos answered, and said to Amasias, I was not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet; but I was a herdman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruits. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the Lord took me from the sheep, and the Lord said to me, Go, and prophesy to my people Israel. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And now hear the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not to Israel, and raise not a tumult against the house of Jacob. <span class="reftext"><a href="/amos/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be a harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be measured with the line; and thou shalt die in an unclean land; and Israel shall be led captive out of his land. Thus has the Lord God shewed me.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../amos/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Amos 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Amos 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../amos/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Amos 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Amos 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>