Amos 7:1-9

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.

4 a This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling e for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

5 Then I said,
"O Lord God, please cease!
c How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!"
 6 d The Lord relented concerning this:
"This also shall not be," said the Lord God.

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

8 And the Lord said to me, g "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said,
"Behold, I am setting f a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
g I will never again pass by them;
 9 h the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,
and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,
and I will rise against i the house of Jeroboam with the sword."

  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.
  5. Cross References
    Amos 7:1
    This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, 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.
  6. Cross References
    Revelation 8:7 - 8
    The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.
  7. Cross References
    Amos 7:2
    When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord God, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!
  8. Cross References
    Amos 7:3
    The Lord relented concerning this: "It shall not be," said the Lord.
  9. Cross References
    Amos 7:1
    This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, 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.
  10. Cross References
    Amos 7:17
    Therefore thus says the Lord : "'Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided up with a measuring line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.'
    2 Kings 21:13
    And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
  11. Cross References
    Amos 8:2
    And he said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me, "The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them.
  12. Cross References
    Amos 8:2
    And he said, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me, "The end has come upon my people Israel; I will never again pass by them.
  13. Cross References
    Amos 7:7
    This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
  14. Cross References
    Genesis 26:23
    From there he went up to Beersheba.
    Genesis 26:25
    So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.
  15. Cross References
    2 Kings 15:8 - 12
    In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.
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