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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This is what the Almighty LORD showed me: The Almighty LORD was calling for judgment by fire. The fire dried up the ocean and burned up the land.
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Then I said, "Almighty LORD, please stop! How can [the descendants of] Jacob survive? There are so few of them."
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The LORD changed his plans about this. "This won't happen either," the Almighty LORD said.
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This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall built with the use of a plumb line, and he had a plumb line in his hand.
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He asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" I answered, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "I'm going to hold a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will no longer overlook what they have done.