The Prophet is here preaching by figure, in vision perhaps it might be; and by a multitude of grasshoppers, he points out the certain ruin of the country by famine. If we compare this scripture with the corresponding history of the times in which 4rnos ministered, we shall discover the illustration of the figure. It was in the reign of Uzziah, see 2 Chronicles 26:1. But whether those grasshoppers were literally so, and destroyed the fruits of the earth, or whether typical of the army of the Assyrians, the sense is the same: it was for punishment to the people. The Prophet's prayer is beautiful, and the Lord's answer most gracious. Reader! did not the Prophet here become a type of the Lord Jesus?
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Amos 7:1-3
1 Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppersa in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
3 The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.