Warning Visions

7 aThis is what the Lord God showed me: behold, bhe was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings. 2 When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

“O Lord God, please forgive!

cHow can Jacob stand?

He is so small!”

3  dThe Lord relented concerning this:

“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

4 aThis is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling efor a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. 5 Then I said,

“O Lord God, please cease!

cHow can Jacob stand?

He is so small!”

6  dThe Lord relented concerning this:

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

7 aThis is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with fa plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the Lord said to me, g“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,

“Behold, I am setting fa plumb line

in the midst of my people Israel;

gI will never again pass by them;

9  hthe high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,

and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,

and I will rise against ithe house of Jeroboam with the sword.”