1. This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a plague of locusts when the latter growth was beginning to sprout up, the latter growth after the king’s reaping.
2. When they had finished devouring the foliage of the land, I said, “O Lord God, please forgive. How can Jacob survive? For he is small.”
3. The Lord relented concerning this:“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
4. This is what the Lord God showed me: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It was consuming the great deep and was devouring the fields.
5. I said, “O Lord God, please stop. How can Jacob survive? For he is small.”
6. The Lord relented concerning this:“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
7. This is what He showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall made using a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.
8. The Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”And I said, “A plumb line.”Then the Lord said, “See, I am putting a plumb line in the midst of My people Israel. I will forgive them no more.
9. The high places of Isaac will be destroyed,the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste,and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
10. Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you at the very center of the house of Israel. The country cannot endure all his words.