Amos 7:3

The Lord repented. See on Num. 23:19. When sinners repent of their evil, God “repents” of His purpose to punish and destroy them (see Jer. 18:8; 42:10; Joel 2:12-14; Jonah 3). Divine threatenings are really conditional prophecies, their fulfillment or nonfulfillment being conditioned by our wrong or right action.

The locust invasion was seen in vision. There is difference of opinion as to whether it represented a literal insect invasion, either past or threatened, or stood for earlier chastisements God had employed to lead His people to repentance, or referred to enemy invasion such as that of Tiglath-pileser III (1 Chron. 5:26). See further on Amos 7:4.