Amos 7:8

And Hashem said unto me: Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line. Then said Hashem: 1 Hineni, I will set a plumb line 1 in the midst of My people Yisroel; 1 I will not again pass by them + 7:8 and spare them anymore; 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more:

In Context

7Thus He showed me; and, hinei, Hashem stood upon a chomah (wall) made with a plumb line, and a plumb line in His hand.

9And the high places of Yischak shall be desolate, 1 and the mikdeshei Yisroel + 7:9 i.e., heathen sanctuaries shall be laid waste; 1 and I will rise against the Bais Yarov'am with the cherev.

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:13And I will stretch over Yerushalayim the measuring line of Shomron, and the plumbline of the Bais Ach'av; and I will wipe Yerushalayim as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

Jeremiah 1:11Moreover the Devar Hashem came unto me, saying, Yirmeyah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a makel shaqed (a branch of an almond tree).

Lamentations 2:8Hashem hath purposed to destroy 1 the Chomat Bat Tziyon; 1 He hath stretched out a measuring line, 1 He hath not withdrawn His hand from destroying; 1 therefore He made the rampart and the chomah to lament; 1 they languished together. 1

Hosea 1:6And she conceived again, and bore a bat. And G-d said unto him, Call her shem Lo-ruchamah (not pitied); for I will no more have pity upon Bais Yisroel; since I have been utterly betrayed by them. + 1:6 1K 2:10

Micah 7:18Mee El kamocha (Who is a G-d like unto Thee), removing avon, 1 and passing over peysha of the She'erit of His Nachalah? Hashem retaineth not His anger forever, 1 because He delighteth in chesed. 1

Zechariah 4:2And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and hinei a menorat zahav, solid gold, with an oil vessel upon the top of it, and shivah nerot (lamps) thereon, and shivah tubes to the shivah nerot (lamps), which are upon the top thereof:

Matthew Henry on Amos 7:2-10

Intercession for Israel; Ruin of Israel Foretold. ( b. c. 785.) 1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God , forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 3 The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord . 4 Thus hath… Read the whole commentary →

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