5`Lord Jehovah, cease, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise -- for he [is] small?`
6Jehovah hath repented of this, `It also shall not be,` said the Lord Jehovah.
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;
8and Jehovah saith unto me, `What art thou seeing, Amos?` And I say, `A plumb-line;` and the Lord saith: `Lo, I am setting a plumb-line in the midst of My people Israel, I do not add any more to pass over to it.
9And desolated have been high places of Isaac, And sanctuaries of Israel are wasted, And I have risen against the house of Jeroboam with a sword.`
10And Amaziah priest of Beth-El sendeth unto Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, `Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words,
11for thus said Amos: By sword die doth Jeroboam, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.`