Amos replied to Amaziah, “I was not a prophet by profession. No, I was a herdsman who also took care of sycamore fig trees.

I made some of your sons prophets and some of your young men Nazirites. Is this not true, you Israelites?” The Lord is speaking!

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine; you commanded the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy!’

Certainly the sovereign Lord does nothing without first revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.