12 “Therefore that is what I shall do to you, O Israel. As a consequence of the fact that I shall do this very thing to you, get ready to meet your God,*+ O Israel.

8 Then Jehovah said to me: “What are you seeing, Aʹmos?”* So I said: “A plummet.” And Jehovah* went on to say: “Here I am setting a plummet in the midst of my people Israel.+ I shall no more do any further excusing of it.+