Amos 7:1-9

Christian Standard Bible

First Vision: Locusts

7 The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts^(A) at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay. ² When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land,^(B) I said, “Lord God, please forgive!^(C) How will Jacob survive since he is so small?” ^(D)

³ The Lord relented concerning this.^(E) “It will not happen,” he said.

Second Vision: Fire

⁴ The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire.^(F) It consumed the great deep and devoured the land. ⁵ Then I said, “Lord God, please stop!^(G) How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

⁶ The Lord relented concerning this.^(H) “This will not happen either,” said the Lord God.

Third Vision: A Plumb Line

⁷ He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in his hand. ⁸ The Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” ^(I)

I replied, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said, “I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel;^(J) I will no longer spare them:^(K)