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God showed me this vision: Oh! God, my Master God was calling up a firestorm. It burned up the ocean. Then it burned up the Promised Land.
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I said, "God, my Master! Hold it - please! What's going to come of Jacob? He's so small."
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God gave in. "All right, this won't happen either," God, my Master, said.
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God showed me this vision: My Master was standing beside a wall. In his hand he held a plumb line.
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God said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" I said, "A plumb line." Then my Master said, "Look what I've done. I've hung a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I've spared them for the last time. This is it!