Amos 7:1-8 ▼

1 This is what the LORD showed me: And look, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and look, it was the latter growth after the king's harvest.

2 It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, |Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you. How could Jacob stand? For he is small.|

3 The LORD relented concerning this. |It shall not be,| says the LORD.

4 This is what the LORD showed me: And look, the LORD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.

5 Then I said, |Lord GOD, stop, I beg you. How could Jacob stand? For he is small.|

6 The LORD relented concerning this. |This also shall not be,| says the LORD.

7 This is what the LORD showed me: And look, he was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

8 And the LORD said to me, |Amos, what do you see?| And I said, |A plumb line.| Then the LORD said, |Look, I have set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.