OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 7:8

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The LORD 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 middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

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Verse 8. Plaster. Septuagint “I will no more pass over it,” the adamantine wall. I will hide their faults no longer. Bible.—this third vision alluded to the distress of the ten tribes. 4 Kennicott. 15:20. Worthington.

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