Amos 7:5

And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

In Context

4These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part at the same time.

6The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not be, said the Lord God.

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Cross References

Psalms 85:4Thou hast mitigated all thy anger: thou best turned away from the wrath of thy indignation.

Isaiah 10:25For yet a little and a very little while, and my indignation shall cease, and my wrath shall be upon their wickedness.

Ezekiel 9:8And the slaughter being ended I was left: and I fell upon my face, and crying, I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, wilt thou then destroy all the remnant of Israel, by pouring out thy fury upon Jerusalem?

Amos 7:2And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, I said: O Lord God, be merciful, I beseech thee: who shall raise up Jacob, for he is very little?

Matthew Henry on Amos 7:2-10

Intercession for Israel; Ruin of Israel Foretold. ( b. c. 785.) 1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2 And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God , forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 3 The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord . 4 Thus hath… Read the whole commentary →

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