Amos 7:4
Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord God called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
Cross-reference
In Amos 7:1, the first vision of locusts follows the identical structure: judgment, intercession, and relenting.
In Amos 7:7, the plumb line vision shows a shift — no intercession or relenting, contrasting with the fire vision's mercy.
In Amos 8:1, the same introductory formula introduces another vision (summer fruit), continuing the series of judgment visions.
In Nahum 1:6, God's fiery wrath is similarly described as unendurable, using fire imagery for judgment.
In Job 1:16, fire from heaven consumes sheep and servants, paralleling the devouring fire of judgment in Amos.
In Joel 1:19, fire devours pastures and trees, directly echoing Amos's vision of fire consuming the land.
Revelation 8:8 uses similar apocalyptic imagery: fire consuming the sea ('great deep') — a parallel of divine judgment by fire upon waters.
In Isaiah 9:18, wickedness burns like fire consuming briers, a different metaphor but same destructive fire imagery.
Joel 2:30 includes fire among eschatological wonders — connects to the fire judgment but less directly.
Micah 1:4 depicts mountains melting like wax before fire — theophanic fire imagery parallel to the consuming fire.