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Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord God said, “It will not happen either.”

The Vision of the Plumb Line

This is what the Lord showed me: He stood by a wall with a plumb line[a] in his hand. (The wall had been marked with a plumb line.) The Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said to me, “See, I will put a plumb line among my people Israel. I will not let their ‘crooked ways’ pass inspection anymore.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:7 plumb line A string with a weight on one end used to show how straight the walls of a building were. Sometimes the line was coated with paint or chalk to mark a straight line.

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