Amos 7:1-3

International Standard Version

The Vision of Locusts

7 This is what the Lord God showed me: Look! He was forming locust swarms as the latter plantings were just beginning to sprout. Indeed, the king had just taken his first fruit tax.^{[a] 2} And so it came about that when the swarm^[b] had finished eating the grass of the land, I was saying,

³ So the Lord relented from this. “This will not happen,” said the Lord.