"Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,

"The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up."

Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

but don't prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house!"

He said, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then Yahweh said to me, "The end has come on my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them," says Yahweh your God.