1. This is what the Master יהוה showed me, and see, He was forming locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop. And see, it was the late crop after the mowings of the sovereign.
2. And it came to be, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said, “O Master יהוה, forgive, I pray! How does Ya‛aqoḇ survive, for he is small?”
3. יהוה relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” said יהוה.
4. This is what the Master יהוה showed me, and see, the Master יהוה was calling to contend by fire, and it consumed the great deep and did consume the portion,
5. and I said, “O Master יהוה, please stop! How does Ya‛aqoḇ survive, for he is small?”
6. יהוה relented concerning this. “This shall not be either,” said the Master יהוה.
7. This is what He showed me, and see, יהוה stood on a wall made with a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in His hand,
8. and יהוה said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb-line.” And יהוה said, “See, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Yisra’ĕl, no longer do I pardon them.
9. “And the high places of Yitsḥaq shall be laid waste, and the set-apart places of Yisra’ĕl shall be destroyed. And I shall rise with the sword against the house of Yaroḇ‛am.”