English Standard Version

Amos 7:1-5 English Standard Version (ESV)

1. This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

2. When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,“O Lord God, please forgive! How can Jacob stand?He is so small!”

3. The Lord relented concerning this:“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

4. This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

5. Then I said,“O Lord God, please cease! How can Jacob stand?He is so small!”