Amos 7:4-7

New International Version

⁴ This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire;^(A) it dried up the great deep and devoured^(B) the land. ⁵ Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!^(C)”

⁶ So the Lord relented.^(D)

“This will not happen either,” the Sovereign Lord said.^(E)

⁷ This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,^[a] with a plumb line^[b] in his hand.