The LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
I said, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Amos 7:8 in context
Amos 7:5–11
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Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
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The LORD relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord GOD.
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Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
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The LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
I said, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
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The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
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Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
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For Amos says, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’”
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