7This 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.


In Context

4 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire; it dried up the great deep and devoured the land.

5 Then I cried out, "Sovereign Lord , I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!"

6 So the Lord relented. "This will not happen either," the Sovereign Lord said.

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 destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam."

Amos 7:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:7Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall [made] by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:7These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason's trowel.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:7Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:7Thus 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:7Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:7Thus he showed me: and behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumb-line, with a plumb-line in his hand.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:7Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:7Thus hath He shewed me, and lo, the Lord is standing by a wall made according to a plumb-line, and in His hand a plumb-line;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:7Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood on a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.