Add parallel Print Page Options

Adonai relented concerning this.
“This also shall not happen,”
    says my Lord Adonai.

Plumb Line on a Wall

This is what He has revealed to me: Behold, my Lord was standing by a vertical wall, and in His hand was a plumb line. Then Adonai said to me: “What do you see, Amos?”

I said: “A plumb line.”
Then my Lord said:
“Behold, I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel—
I will no longer pass over them.

Read full chapter

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)

Read full chapter

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.