2 When the locust-swarm had finished devouring the vegetation of the land, I said: “Adonai Elohim, please pardon! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?”
3 Adonai relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” Adonai said.
4 This is what my Lord Adonai has shown me: Behold, Adonai Elohim was calling for the trial by fire, and it would have devoured the great deep, and it would have devoured the territory.
5 But I said: “My Lord Adonai, stop, please! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?”
6 Adonai relented concerning this. “This also shall not happen,” says my Lord Adonai.
7 This is what He has revealed to me: Behold, my Lord was standing by a vertical wall, and in His hand was a plumb line.
8 Then Adonai said to me: “What do you see, Amos?” I said: “A plumb line.” Then my Lord said: “Behold, I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel— I will no longer pass over them.