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11 Eagle owls[a] and herons[b] will possess it,
and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there.(A)
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line(B) over her
for her destruction and chaos.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 34:11 Or Pelicans
  2. 34:11 Or hedgehogs

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)

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