1. Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings.
2. And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!Oh, that Jacob may stand,For he is small!”
3. So the Lord relented concerning this.“It shall not be,” said the Lord.
4. Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the territory.
5. Then I said:“O Lord God, cease, I pray!Oh, that Jacob may stand,For he is small!”
6. So the Lord relented concerning this.“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
7. Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.
8. And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”And I said, “A plumb line.”Then the Lord said:“Behold, I am setting a plumb lineIn the midst of My people Israel;I will not pass by them anymore.