The Lord repented for this He heard the prophet's prayer, and desisted from going on with the threatened destruction: this also shall not be, saith the Lord God; the whole land shall not be destroyed, only a part of it carried captive.
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says the LORD. This is what the LORD God showed me: The LORD God was calling for judgment with fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up part of the land.
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Then I said, "LORD God, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!"
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The LORD relented concerning this: "This also won't take place,"
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says the LORD God. This is what the LORD showed me: The LORD was standing by a wall, with a plumb line in his hand.
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The LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" "A plumb line," I said. Then the LORD said, "See, I am setting a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will never again forgive them.