Amos 7:1-9 NKJV


Amos 7:1-9 Thus the Lord GOD showed me; Behold, He formed locust swarms at the beginning of the late crop; indeed it was the late crop after the king's mowings.

And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said; "O Lord, GOD, forgive, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"

So the LORD relented concerning this. "It shall not be," said the LORD.

Thus the Lord GOD showed me; Behold, the Lord GOD called for conflict by fire, and it consumed the great deep and devoured the territory.

Then I said; "O Lord GOD, cease, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"

So the LORD relented concerning this, "This also shall not be," said the Lord GOD.

Thus He showed me; Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.

And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line," Then the Lord said; "Behold, I am setting a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.

The high places of Isaac shall be desolate, And the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste. I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam."

Isaiah 51:17-23 Awake, awake! Stand up, O Jerusalem, You who have drunk at the hand of the LORD The cup of His fury; You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, And drained it out.

There is no one to guide her Among all the sons she has brought forth; Nor is there any who takes her by the hand Among all the sons she has brought up.

These two things have come to you; Who will be sorry for you?--Desolation and destruction, famine and sword--By whom will I comfort you?

Your sons have fainted, They lie at the head of all the streets, Like an antelope in a net; They are full of the fury of the LORD, The rebuke of your God.

Therefore please hear this, you afflicted, And drunk but not with wine.

Thus says your Lord, The LORD and your God, Who pleads the cause of His people; "See, I have taken out of your hand The cup of trembling, The dregs of the cup of My fury; You shall no longer drink it.

But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, Who have said to you, 'Lie down, that we may walk over you.' And you have laid your body like the ground, And as the street, for those who walk over."

2 Kings 21:10-16 And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,

"Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols),

"therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel; 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

'And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

"So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies,

'because they have done evil in My spirit, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.'"

Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

Genesis 46:1-7 So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" And he said, "Here I am."

So He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.

"I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes."

Then Joseph arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.

His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.