Amos 7:1–9

¹This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.^{a 2}And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

³So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.

⁴This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land. ⁵Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

⁶So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

⁷This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand. ⁸“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD.

“A plumb line,” I replied.

“Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

⁹The high places of Isaac will be deserted,

and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste;

and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam

with My sword.”