Amos 7:1-9 - Warning Visions
1 The LORD God showed me such a vision: behold, there stood one that made grasshoppers, even when the corn was shooting forth, after the king had clipped his sheep. 2 Now when they undertook to eat up all the green things in the land, I said, "O LORD God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who should else help up Jacob that is brought so low?"
3 So the LORD was gracious therein, and the LORD said, "Well, it shall not be."
4 Again, the LORD showed me this vision: behold, the LORD God called the fire to punish withal, and it devoured the great deep: yea, it consumed a part already. 5 Then said I, "O LORD God, hold thine hand: who should else help up Jacob that is brought so low?"
6 So the LORD was merciful therein, and the LORD God said, "Well, it shall not be."
7 Moreover, he showed me this vision: behold, the LORD stood upon a plastered wall, and a mason's trowel in his hand. 8 And the LORD said unto me, "Amos, what seest thou?" I answered, "A mason's trowel." Then said the Lord, "Behold, I will lay the trowel among my people of Israel, and will no more oversee them:
9 but the high hill chapels of Isaac must be laid waste, and the churches of Israel made desolate: and as for the house of Jeroboam, I will stand up against it with the sword."