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Amos 7:1-9 (JDV)

Amos 7:1 The Lord Yahveh showed me this: I noticed as he was forming a swarm of locusts when the spring crop first began to sprout– after the cutting of the king’s hay.
Amos 7:2 When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “the Lord Yahveh, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”
Amos 7:3 Yahveh relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” he said.
Amos 7:4 The Lord Yahveh showed me this: I noticed as The Lord Yahveh was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
Amos 7:5 Then I said, “Lord Yahveh, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”
Amos 7:6 Yahveh relented concerning this. “This will not happen either,” said the Lord Yahveh.
Amos 7:7 He showed me this: I noticed as Yahveh was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in his hand.
Amos 7:8 Yahveh asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” I replied, “A plumb line.” Then Yahveh said, “Notice, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
Amos 7:9 Isaac’s high places will be deserted, and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins; I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.”

not out of options

God has many ways he can punish rebellious and disobedient people. If he relents here and there because of his great grace and compassion, it doesn’t mean we get off entirely. He will not be mocked. If his people refuse to repent of their sins, he will address that failure.