Amos 7:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶The Lord repented concerning this;

“This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

⁷He showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. ⁸And 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 line
in the midst of my people Israel;
I will never again pass by them;

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