Amos 7:1–9
1Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s harvest.↗
2When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”↗
3The LORD relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says the LORD.↗
4Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.↗
5Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”↗
6The LORD relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord GOD.↗
7Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.↗
8The LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.↗
9The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”↗
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