5. Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
6. Jehovah repented for this: This also shall not be, said the Lord Jehovah.
7. Thus did he shew unto me; and behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.
8. And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. And 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.
9. And the high places of Isaac shall be desolated, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will arise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
10. Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
11. For thus Amos saith: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall certainly go into captivity out of his land.
12. And Amaziah said unto Amos, Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.
13. But prophesy not again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.