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Adonai changed his mind about it. “This too won’t happen,” said Adonai Elohim.

Then he showed me this: Adonai was standing by a wall made with a plumbline, and he had a plumbline in his hand. Adonai asked me, “‘Amos, what do you see?” I answered, “A plumbline.” Then Adonai said,

“I am going to put a plumbline in
among my people Isra’el;
I will never again overlook their offenses.

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So the Lord relented.(A)

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

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. And the Lord asked me, “What do you see,(C) Amos?(D)

“A plumb line,(E)” I replied.

Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.(F)

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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.