Amos 7:1-9

Common English Bible

A vision of locusts

7 This is what the Lord God showed me: The Lord God was forming locusts at the time the late grass began to sprout. (It was the late grass after the king’s harvest.) ²When they had finished eating the green plants of the land, I said,

        “Lord God, please forgive!
        How can Jacob survive?
        He is so small!”
³    The Lord relented concerning this:
        “It won’t take place,”
says the Lord.

A vision of fire

⁴This is what the Lord God showed me: The Lord God was calling for judgment with fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up part of the land. ⁵Then I said,

        “Lord God, I beg you, stop!
        How can Jacob survive?
        He is so small!”
⁶    The Lord relented concerning this:
        “This also won’t take place,”
says the Lord God.

A vision of a plumb line

⁷This is what the Lord showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall, with a plumb line in his hand. ⁸The Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”

“A plumb line,” I said.
Then the Lord said,
“See, I am setting a plumb line
    in the middle of my people Israel.
        I will never again forgive them.
⁹The shrines of Isaac will be made desolate,
            and the holy places of Israel will be laid waste,
            and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”