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3 LORD relented concerning this. It shall not be, says LORD.
4 Thus the lord LORD showed me: And, behold, the lord LORD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.
5 Then I said, O lord LORD, cease, I beseech thee. How shall Jacob stand, for he is small?
6 LORD relented concerning this. This also shall not be, says the lord LORD.
7 Thus he showed me: And, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.
8 And LORD said to me, Amos, what do thou see? And I said, A plumb-line. Then the Lord said, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.