3 The Lord relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” He said.
4 The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
5 Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small? ”
6 The Lord relented concerning this. “This will not happen either,” said the Lord God.
7 He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.
8 The Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos? ” I replied, “A plumb line.”Then the Lord said, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
9 Isaac’s high places will be deserted,and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins; I will rise up against the house of Jeroboamwith a sword.”