5. Then I said, "Lord God, please stop! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?"
6. The Lord changed His mind about this. "This too shall not be," said the Lord God.
7. Thus He showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in His hand.
8. The Lord said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold I am about to put a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel. I will spare them no longer.
9. "The high places of Isaac will be desolated And the sanctuaries of Israel laid waste. Then I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword."