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Third Vision: A Plumb Line

He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in his hand. The Lord asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos? ’(A)

I replied, ‘A plumb line.’

Then the Lord said, ‘I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel;(B) I will no longer spare them:(C)

Isaac’s high places(D) will be deserted,
and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins;(E)
I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam
with a sword.’

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