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Amos 7:6-8
GOD’S WORD Translation
Amos 7:6-8
GOD’S WORD Translation
6 The Lord changed his plans about this. “This won’t happen either,” the Almighty Lord said.
The Lord Refuses to Overlook Israel’s Sin
7 This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall built with the use of a plumb line, and he had a plumb line in his hand. 8 He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?”
I answered, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said, “I’m going to hold a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will no longer overlook what they have done.
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Amos 7:6-8
New International Version
Amos 7:6-8
New International Version
6 So the Lord relented.(A)
“This will not happen either,” the Sovereign Lord said.(B)
7 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. 8 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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