Four Visions of Amos*

I. A Vision of a Swarm of Locusts (Amos 7:1–3)

¹This is what [the Lord] Yahweh showed me:

Lo, he was forming a swarm of locusts When the second crop was beginning to come up

[Lo, it was the late sowing after the king’s cutting.]

^2bTo devour the herbage of the earth.

^2a And when he had finished

^2c I said, “O [Lord] Yahweh, forgive, I beg of you; How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

³Yahweh repented of this—

It won’t happen,” said [the Lord] Yahweh.

II. A Vision of a Rain of Fire (Amos 7:4–6)

⁴This is what [the Lord] Yahweh showed me:

Lo, he was calling for a rain of fire Which would consume the great deep and devour the land.

⁵Then I said, “O [Lord] Yahweh, stop, I beg of you;

How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

⁶Yahweh repented of this—

“It won’t happen,” said [the Lord] Yahweh.