4. This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
5. Then I said,“O Lord God, please cease! How can Jacob stand?He is so small!”
6. The Lord relented concerning this:“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
7. This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
8. And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,“Behold, I am setting a plumb linein the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;