¹³ because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.^(A) Mercy triumphs over judgment.

¹³ I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line^(A) used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe^(B) out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

⁷ This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,^[a] with a plumb line^[b] in his hand.

⁸ And the Lord asked me, “What do you see,^(A) Amos?^(B)”

“A plumb line,^(C)” I replied.

Then the Lord said, “Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.^(D)