Amos 7:1-9 - Warning Visions

¹ The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay. ² When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

³ The Lord relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” He said.

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

⁶ The Lord relented concerning this. “This will not happen either,” said the Lord God.

⁷ He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand. ⁸ The Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?”

I replied, “A plumb line.”

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

⁹ Isaac’s high places will be deserted,
and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins;
I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam
with a sword.”