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.
9 ‘The high places of Isaac will be destroyedand the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined;with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.’
10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: ‘Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.
11 For this is what Amos is saying:‘ “Jeroboam will die by the sword,and Israel will surely go into exile,away from their native land.” ’
12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, ‘Get out, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Earn your bread there and do your prophesying there.