Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Amos 7:7
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This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.
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¶ Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
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Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
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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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Amos 7
5 Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
6 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
7 This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.
8 “Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
9 The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”
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