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The Vision of the Plumb Line

This is what he showed me: The Lord stood by a straight wall, with a plumb line in his hand. The Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said, “See, I will put a plumb line among my people Israel to show how crooked they are. I will not look the other way any longer.

“The places where Isaac’s descendants worship will be destroyed,
    Israel’s holy places will be turned into ruins,
    and I will attack King Jeroboam’s family with the sword.”

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