Amos 7:7

upon or leaning over(cf. Amos 9:1), i.e. (R.V.) beside. The prophet sees Jehovah stationed(Genesis 28:13; Isaiah 3:13 a, Isaiah 21:8 b), niẓẓâb, implying a rather more set and formal attitude than -ômçd, -standing," beside a plummet-wall(i.e. a wall built to the plummet), and holding a plummet in his hand:the design of the vision is thus to represent Him as a builder, whose aim is to secure that everything with which he has to do is built true. The application of the figure follows in Amos 7:8.