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.
f Nat. Hist. l. 3. c. 4. g "plumbum, sive nigrum, sive album puriusque", Camusus; "plumbum et stannum", Ibn Maruph apud Golium, col. 176. Avicenna apud Castel. col. 161. Vid. Hottinger. Smegma Oriental. l. 1. c. 7. p. 122. h לא אוסיף עוד עבור לו "non adjiciam ultra pertransire eum", Montanus; "non ultra per eum transibit", some in Mercerus.