2 When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, ‘Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!’
3 So the Lord relented.‘This will not happen,’ the Lord said.
4 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: the Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.
5 Then I cried out, ‘Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!’
6 So the Lord relented.‘This will not happen either,’ the Sovereign Lord said.
7 This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb-line in his hand.
8 And the Lord asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos?’‘A plumb-line,’ I replied.Then the Lord said, ‘Look, I am setting a plumb-line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.