Amos 7:1-9

Warning through Visions

¹This is what the Lord God showed me, and behold, He was forming a swarm of locusts when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s mowing. ²And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,

“Lord God, please pardon!

How can Jacob stand?

For he is small.”

3The Lord relented of this.

“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

⁴So the Lord God showed me, and behold, the Lord God was calling to contend with them by fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the farmland. ⁵Then I said,

“Lord God, please stop!

How can Jacob stand?

For he is small.”

6The Lord relented of this.

“This too shall not be,” said the Lord God.

⁷So He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand. ⁸And the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Amos?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“Behold I am about to put a plumb line

In the midst of My people Israel.

I will not spare them any longer.

9“The high places of Isaac will become deserted,

And the sanctuaries of Israel will be in ruins.

Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

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