Amos 7:6-8

Easy-to-Read Version

⁶ Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord God said, “It will not happen either.”

The Vision of the Plumb Line

⁷ This is what the Lord showed me: He stood by a wall with a plumb line^[a] in his hand. (The wall had been marked with a plumb line.) ⁸ The Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said to me, “See, I will put a plumb line among my people Israel. I will not let their ‘crooked ways’ pass inspection anymore.