5 Then I said,"Lord God, I beg you, stop!How can Jacob survive?He is so small!"
6 The Lord relented concerning this:"This also won’t take place,"says the Lord God.
7 This is what the Lord showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall, with a plumb line in his hand.
8 The Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?""A plumb line," I said.Then the Lord said,"See, I am setting a plumb linein the middle of my people Israel.I will never again forgive them.
9 The shrines of Isaac will be made desolate,and the holy places of Israel will be laid waste,and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."
10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, reported to Israel’s King Jeroboam, "Amos has plotted against you within the house of Israel. The land isn’t able to cope with everything that he is saying.
11 Amos has said, ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will be forced out of its land.’"