4 These things the Lord God has revealed to me. And behold, the Lord God called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the manifold abyss, and it consumed simultaneously in every direction.
5 And I said, 'Lord God, cease, I beg you. Who will raise up Jacob, for he is little?'
6 The Lord has been merciful about this. 'And even this will not be,' said the Lord God.
7 These things the Lord revealed to me. And behold, the Lord was standing near a plastered wall, and in his hand was a mason's trowel.
8 And the Lord said to me, 'What do you see, Amos?' And I said, 'A mason's trowel.' And the Lord said, 'Behold, I will place the trowel in the midst of my people Israel. I will no longer plaster over them.
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