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.
9. So the high places of Isaac will become desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste, and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”