Amos 7:1-8 ▼

1 This 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.

2 And 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.”

3 The LORD relented of this. “It shall not be,” said the LORD.

4 So 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.

5 Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand? For he is small.”

6 The LORD relented of this. “This too shall not be,” said the Lord GOD.

7 So He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.

8 And 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.