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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The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
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Then I said, "Lord God , please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?"
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The Lord relented concerning this. "This will not happen either," said the Lord God .
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He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.
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The Lord asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" I replied, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them: