Amos 7:1

Amos 7:1

Vision of the Locusts

1 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, He formed locust swarms at the¹ beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king’s mowings.

2 And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:
“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!
^aOh,¹ that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”

3 So ^athe Lord relented concerning this.
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

Vision of the Fire

4 Thus the Lord God showed me: Behold, the Lord God called¹ for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the² territory.

5 Then I said:
“O Lord God, cease, I pray!
^aOh, that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Thus - This is the first of five prophetic representations of what was coming upon this people. The latter growth - The shooting up of the first growth being too luxuriant, they often eat it down with cattle; but if the second growth were eat up, it marred the whole harvest. Mowed - It is supposed the first mowing of the corn in the blade was for the king's use; and after this the second springing grew up to the harvest.

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