Amos 7:1-9

This is what Lord YAHWEH revealed to me in a vision: Behold! Just after the hay had been cut for the king, when the new young grass started to grow again, I saw YAHWEH forming a swarm of mature locusts. I watched as they began eating all the vegetation in the land, so I pleaded with God, saying, “Lord YAHWEH, please forgive us, I beg you, or we will not survive! Our nation is so helpless.” My prayer moved God’s heart to compassion. YAHWEH said: “It will not happen.” In another vision, YAHWEH revealed this to me: Behold! He was calling for punishment by fire. The scorching heat dried up the deep sources of water beneath the land and made the farmlands like dust. So I pleaded with God, saying, “Lord YAHWEH, please don’t do this, I beg you, or we will not survive! Our nation is so helpless.” Because of my prayer, God’s heart was stirred with compassion. “This also will not happen,” said YAHWEH. Lord YAHWEH revealed this to me in another vision: I saw the Lord standing by a wall built true to plumb, holding a plumb line in his hand. “Amos, what do you see?” YAHWEH asked me. “A plumb line,” I replied. Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am about to set a plumb line up against my people Israel to test them. Never again will I look the other way when they sin. I will destroy the high places where Isaac’s descendants worship, and I will ruin the holy places of Israel. With my sword in hand, I will attack the dynasty of Jeroboam.”