Warning Visions

Amos 7

¹ This is what the Lord God showed me: he was forming locusts at the time the latter growth began to sprout (it was the latter growth after the king's mowings).

² When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

"O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!"
³ The Lord relented concerning this;
"It shall not be," said the Lord.

⁴ This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire, ₁ and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

⁵ Then I said,

"O Lord God, cease, I beg you!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!"
⁶ The Lord relented concerning this;
"This also shall not be," said the Lord God.

⁷ This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

⁸ And the Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said,

"See, I am setting a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass them by;
⁹ the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."