Amos 7:1-6
21st Century King James Version
7 Thus hath the Lord God shown unto me: And behold, He formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
2 And it came to pass, when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, “O Lord God, forgive, I beseech Thee! By whom shall Jacob arise? For he is small.”
3 The Lord repented concerning this. “It shall not be,” saith the Lord.
4 Thus hath the Lord God shown unto me: And behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep and ate up a part.
5 Then said I, “O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee! By whom shall Jacob arise? For he is small.”
6 The Lord repented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” saith the Lord God.
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