15and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'


In Context

12 Amaziah also said to Amos, |You seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

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

14 Then Amos answered Amaziah, |I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;

15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

16 Now therefore listen to the word of Yahweh: 'You say, Don't prophesy against Israel, and don't preach against the house of Isaac.'

17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: 'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'|

Amos 7:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:15And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:15But the Lord took me from tending the flock and said to me, 'Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:15And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:15and Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:15And Jehovah took me as I followed the flock, and Jehovah said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:15and the LORD took me from following the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:15And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:15and Jehovah taketh me from after the flock, and Jehovah saith unto me, Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:15And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.