Amos 7:5
3 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
4 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
6 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
7 This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
- KJV
- Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
- WEB
- Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
- ASV
- Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
- DARBY
- Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
- BLB
- And I said, “Lord YHWH, cease, please! How can Jacob arise, for he [is] small?”
- ÅB
- Da sa jeg: Herre, Israels Gud, hold opp! Hvordan skal Jakob kunne bli i live, han som er så liten?
- OTB
- Da bønnfalt jeg: “Herre Gud, stans! Hvordan kan Jakob holde ut? Han er så liten!”
- B1930
- Da sa jeg: Herre, Israels Gud, hold op! Hvorledes skal Jakob kunne bli i live, han som er så liten?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 85:4
Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
Read in contextAmos 7:2–3
And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
Read in contextJoel 2:17
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
Read in contextIsaiah 10:25
For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
Read in contextJeremiah 30:19
Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:9
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
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