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Amos pleads beside a distinct vision of fire crossing deep water and land.
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Amos 7:4-6

The Fire Vision Withheld

Visions and the King's Sanctuary · Amos 7

Story guide: This is a reported vision of judgment, followed by relenting, rather than a witnessed wildfire.

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4This is what the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD was calling for a judgment by fire, and it consumed the great deep and was consuming the land.

5Then I said, “Lord GOD, please cease. How can Jacob stand? For he is small.”

6Yahweh relented concerning this also: “It too shall not happen,” said the Lord GOD.

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