Amos 7:1-3

New International Version - UK

Locusts, fire and a plumb-line

7 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: he was preparing swarms of locusts after the king’s share had been harvested and just as the late crops were coming up. ² When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, ‘Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!’

³ So the Lord relented.

‘This will not happen,’ the Lord said.