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7 The Vision of the Plumb LineThis is what he showed me: Look! The Lord was standing upon a wall that stood straight and true, with a plumb line in his hand.
8 And the LORD was asking me, “What do you see, Amos?”
I replied, “A plumb line.”
So the Lord said, “Look, I have set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will no longer spare them.
9 Isaac’s high places will be destroyed, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined. I will rise in opposition to the house of Jeroboam with my sword.”
10A Rebuke for AmaziahSo Amaziah priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel. It said, “Amos has been conspiring against you in the very heart of the house of Israel! The land cannot bear everything he has to say,
11 because Amos is saying this: ‘By the sword will Jeroboam die, and Israel will surely go into exile far from her homeland.’”
12 So Amaziah kept saying to Amos, “Get out of here, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Live there and prophesy there. 13 Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because it’s the king’s sanctuary and a temple of the kingdom.”
I replied, “A plumb line.”
So the Lord said,
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12 So Amaziah kept saying to Amos, “Get out of here, you seer! Go back to the land of Judah. Live there and prophesy there. 13 Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because it’s the king’s sanctuary and a temple of the kingdom.”