Amos 7:1-3

Warning Visions

1 a This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, b he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, 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, please forgive!
c How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!"
 3 d The Lord relented concerning this:
"It shall not be," said the Lord.

  1. Cross References
    Amos 8:1
    This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit.
  2. Cross References
    Joel 1:4
    What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
    Exodus 10:4
    For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 130:3
    If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 32:36
    For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
    Joel 2:13
    And rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
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