1In this way my Lord the LORD showed me, and behold, he was forming locusts at the beginning of the coming up of the late crop, and behold, a late crop after the king's mowings.2And it will be if it finishes eating the grass of the land, and I will say, "Lord LORD, forgive, please! Who will raise up Jacob? For he is small."3The LORD relented concerning this. "It will not happen," said the LORD.4In this way my Lord the LORD showed me, and behold he called to a great fire, my Lord the LORD, and it devoured the great deep and devoured the portion.5And I said, "Lord LORD, please stop! Who will rise up for Jacob? For he is small."6The LORD relented concerning this. "This too shall not be," said my Lord the LORD.7In this way he showed me, and behold, my Lord was standing upon a plumb wall, and in his hand a plumb line.8And the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A plumb line." And the Lord said, "Look, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will no longer pass by them."9And the high places of Isaac will be desolated, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be desolated, and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.