Amos 7:7-9

Easy-to-Read Version

The Vision of the Plumb Line

⁷ This is what the Lord showed me: He stood by a wall with a plumb line^[a] in his hand. (The wall had been marked with a plumb line.) ⁸ The Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A plumb line.”

Then the Lord said to me, “See, I will put a plumb line among my people Israel. I will not let their ‘crooked ways’ pass inspection anymore. ⁹ Isaac’s high places will be destroyed. Israel’s holy places will be made into a pile of rocks. I will attack and kill Jeroboam’s^[b] family with swords.”