A Vision of a Plumb Line

7 This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8 And the Lord said to me,

‘What do you see, Amos?’

And I answered,

‘A plumb line,’

Then the Lord said,

‘Watch: I am setting a plumb line

in the midst of my people Israel,

I will no longer overlook their crookedness.

9 And the high places of Isaac

will be desolate,

the sanctuaries of Israel

will be laid waste,

and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam

with the sword.’