Amos 7:1-9 - Warning Visions
1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: Look! He was forming locust swarms as the latter plantings were just beginning to sprout. Indeed, the king had just taken his first fruit tax. 2 And so it came about that when the swarm had finished eating the grass of the land, I was saying, "Lord GOD, forgive please! How will Jacob stand, since he is small?"
3 So the LORD relented from this. "This will not happen," said the LORD.
4 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: Look! The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire, and it was drying up the great depths of the ocean and consuming the land. 5 So I kept on saying, "Lord GOD, forgive please! How will Jacob stand, since he is so small?"
6 So the LORD relented from this. "This will not happen, either," said the Lord GOD.
7 This is what he showed me: Look! The Lord was standing upon a wall that stood straight and true, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the LORD was asking me, "What do you see, Amos?" I replied, "A plumb line." So the Lord said, "Look, I have set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will no longer spare them.
9 Isaac's high places will be destroyed, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined. I will rise in opposition to the house of Jeroboam with my sword."