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`Lord Jehovah, cease, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise -- for he [is] small?'

Jehovah hath repented of this, `It also shall not be,' said the Lord Jehovah.

Thus hath He shewed me, and lo, the Lord is standing by a wall [made according to] a plumb-line, and in His hand a plumb-line;

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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.