Amos 7:4-7 Thus did the Lord Eternal show unto me: and, behold, the Lord Eternal called forth the punishment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and consumed the ploughed field.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ Thus did the Lord Eternal show unto me: and, behold, the Lord Eternal called forth the punishment by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and consumed the ploughed field. ⁵ Then said I, O Lord Eternal, forbear, I beseech thee: how should Jacob be able to endure, since he is so small! ⁶ The Lord bethought himself of this: Also this shall not be, said the Lord Eternal. ⁷ Thus he showed unto me: and, behold, the Lord was standing upon a wall made by a plumbline, and in his hand was a plumbline.