Yahweh 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 midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
Through the passage of time, the word "passover" had come to have somewhat the same meaning as forgiveness.  As Motyet noted, "The phrase "pass by", used again at  Amos 8:2, appears in  Micah 7:18 in the meaning `to forgive.'"[21]