Amos 7:8

Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Look, I will put a plumb line among my people Israel. I will spare them no longer. 1

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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

7This is what he showed me: Look, the Lord stood beside a wall, with a plumb line in his hand.

9The high places of Isaac will be destroyed, 1 the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined, 1 and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:13I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria, and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem clean, as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

Jeremiah 1:11The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “I see an almond branch.”

Lamentations 2:8Yahweh decided to destroy the city wall of the daughter of Zion. 1 He has stretched out the measuring line and has not withheld his hand from destroying the wall. 1 He has made the ramparts and wall to lament; together they wasted away. 1

Hosea 1:6Gomer conceived again and bore a daughter. Then Yahweh said to Hosea, 1 “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, 1 for I will no longer have mercy 1 on the house of Israel, 1 that I should forgive them at all. 1

Micah 7:18Who is a God like you— 1 who takes away sin, 1 who passes over the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? 1 He does not keep his anger forever, 1 because he delights in his covenant faithfulness. 1

Zechariah 4:2He said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a lampstand made entirely of gold, with a bowl on its top. It has seven lamps on it and seven lamp wicks at the top of each lamp.

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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