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15 But Yahweh took me from [a]following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, ‘Go (A)prophesy to My people Israel.’ 16 So now, hear the word of Yahweh: you are saying, ‘You (B)shall not prophesy against Israel, (C)nor shall you drip out words against the house of Isaac.’ 17 Therefore, thus says Yahweh, ‘Your (D)wife will play the harlot in the city, your (E)sons and your daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up by a measuring line, and you yourself will die [b]upon (F)unclean land. Moreover, Israel will certainly go from its land into exile.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:15 Lit behind
  2. Amos 7:17 Or in an unclean land