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.
4
This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land.
5
Then I said, "O Lord God, cease, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
6
The Lord relented concerning this; "This also shall not be," said the Lord God.
7
This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
8
And the Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass them by;
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