¹² Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Get out, you seer!^(A) Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.^{(B) 13} Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel,^(C) because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple^(D) of the kingdom.^(E)”

¹⁴ Amos answered Amaziah, “I was neither a prophet^(F) nor the son of a prophet, but I was a shepherd, and I also took care of sycamore-fig trees.^{(G) 15} But the Lord took me from tending the flock^(H) and said to me, ‘Go,^(I) prophesy^(J) to my people Israel.’^(K)