7. This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb-line in his hand.
8. And the Lord asked me, ‘What do you see, Amos?’‘A plumb-line,’ I replied.Then the Lord said, ‘Look, I am setting a plumb-line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.
9. ‘The high places of Isaac will be destroyedand the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined;with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.’
10. Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent a message to Jeroboam king of Israel: ‘Amos is raising a conspiracy against you in the very heart of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words.