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And so it came about that when the swarm[a] had finished eating the grass of the land, I was saying,

“Lord God, forgive—please!
    How will Jacob stand, since he is small?”

So the Lord relented from this. “This will not happen,” said the Lord.

The Vision of Fire

This is what the Lord God showed me: Look! The Lord God was calling for judgment by fire, and it was drying up the great depths of the ocean[b] and consuming the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:2 The Heb. lacks the swarm
  2. Amos 7:4 The Heb. lacks of the ocean