5 Then I said:Cease, O Lord God!Who will raise up Jacob?He is so small!
6 The Lord relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
7 This is what the Lord God showed me: He was standing, plummet in hand, by a wall built with a plummet.
8 The Lord God asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” And I answered, “A plummet.” Then the Lord said:See, I am laying the plummetin the midst of my people Israel;I will forgive them no longer.
9 The high places of Isaac shall be laid waste,and the sanctuaries of Israel made desolate;and I will attack the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
10 Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam, king of Israel: “Amos has conspired against you within the house of Israel; the country cannot endure all his words.
11 For this is what Amos says:‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword,and Israel shall surely be exiled from its land.’”