First Reading
Amos 7:10-17
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
10And Amasias the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: Amos has rebelled against you in the midst of the people of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
11For thus says Amos: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall be carried away captive out of their own land.
12And Amasias said to Amos: You seer, go, flee away into the land of Juda: and eat bread there, and prophesy there.
13But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.
14And Amos answered and said to Amasias: I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet: but I am a herdsman plucking wild figs.
15And the Lord took me when I followed the flock, and the Lord said to me: Go, prophesy to my people Israel.
16And now hear you the word of the Lord: You sayest, you shall not prophesy against Israel, and you shall not drop your word upon the house of the idol.
17Therefore thus says the Lord: Your wife shall play the harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be measured by a line: and you shall die in a polluted land, and Israel shall go into captivity out of their land.