Amos 7:5-7

Easy-to-Read Version

⁵But I said, “Lord God, stop, I beg you! Jacob cannot survive! He is too small!”

⁶Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord God said, “It will not happen either.”

⁷This is what the Lord showed me: He stood by a wall with a plumb line^[a] in his hand. (The wall had been marked with a plumb line.)

Amos 7:7 plumb line A string with a weight on one end used to show how straight the walls of a building were. Sometimes the line was coated with paint or chalk to mark a straight line.

Amos 7:5-7

New International Version

⁵Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!^(A)”

⁶So the Lord relented.^(B)

“This will not happen either,” the Sovereign Lord said.^(C)

⁷This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,^[a] with a plumb line^[b] in his hand.

Amos 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
Amos 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain; also in verse 8.

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