Amos 7:2-4

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said,

“O Lord God, forgive, I beg you!
    How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!”
³The Lord relented concerning this;
    “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

⁴This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire,^[a] and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

Amos 7:4 Or for a judgment by fire

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.