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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Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and, behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
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Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
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Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.
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Thus he showed me and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
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Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.