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This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
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Then I said, “O Lord God, please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small! ”
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The Lord relented concerning this: “This also shall not be, ” said the Lord God.
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This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
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And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see? ” And I said, “A plumb line. ” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;