Then I said:

“O Lord God, cease, I pray!
(A)Oh, that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”
So the Lord relented concerning this.
“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

Vision of the Plumb Line

Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.

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

So the Lord relented.(B)

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

This 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.

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Footnotes

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