Amos 7:1-9

1The 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.

2When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

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

4The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

5Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

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

7He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in his hand.

8The 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:

9Isaac’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.”