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14 Amos replied in answer to Amaziah,

“I am no prophet,
    nor am I a prophet’s son,
for I have been shepherding
    and picking the fruit of[a] sycamore[b] trees.

15 But the Lord took me from tending the flock and the Lord kept saying to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.’

16 “Very well then, hear this message from the Lord:

‘You are saying,
    “Don’t prophesy against Israel,
        and don’t preach against the house of Isaac.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:14 The Heb. lacks the fruit of
  2. Amos 7:14 The sycamore fruit tree native to Israel bears figs