In Context

6 Yahweh relented concerning this. |This also shall not be,| says the Lord Yahweh.

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

8 Yahweh said to me, |Amos, what do you see?| I said, |A plumb line.| Then 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 The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.|

10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, |Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

11 For Amos says, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'|

Amos 7:9 in Other Translations