Amos 7:1-3

New International Reader's Version

Amos Has Visions of Locusts, Fire and a Plumb Line

7 The Lord and King gave me a vision. He was bringing large numbers of locusts on the land. The king’s share had already been harvested. Now the later crops were coming up. ² The locusts stripped the land clean. Then I cried out, “Lord and King, forgive Israel! How can Jacob’s people continue? They are such a weak nation!”

³ So the Lord had pity on them.

“I will let them continue for now,” he said.