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But I said, “Lord God, stop, I beg you! Jacob cannot survive! He is too small!”

Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord God said, “It will not happen either.”

The Vision of the Plumb Line

This is what the Lord showed me: He stood by a wall with a plumb line[a] in his hand. (The wall had been marked with a plumb line.)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:7 plumb line A string with a weight on one end used to show how straight the walls of a building were. Sometimes the line was coated with paint or chalk to mark a straight line.

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