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.
9. The high places of Isaac shall be desolate,And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam.”