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;
9. the high places of Isaac shall be made desolate,and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste,and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
10. Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.