Amos 7:5

“Lord YHWH, please cease, || How does Jacob arise—for he [is] small?”

Literal Standard Version

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

4Thus has Lord YHWH showed me, and behold, Lord YHWH is calling to contend by the fire, and it consumes the great deep, indeed, it has consumed the portion, and I say,

6YHWH has relented of this, “It also will not be,” said Lord YHWH.

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Cross References

Psalms 85:4Turn back [to] us, O God of our salvation, || And make void Your anger with us.

Isaiah 10:25For yet a very little [while], || And the indignation has been completed, || And My anger by their wearing out.”

Ezekiel 9:8And it comes to pass, as they are striking, and I am left—that I fall on my face, and cry, and say, “Aah! Lord YHWH, are You destroying all the remnant of Israel, in Your pouring out Your wrath on Jerusalem?”

Amos 7:2and it has come to pass, when it has finished to consume the herb of the land, that I say, “Lord YHWH, please forgive, || How does Jacob arise—for he [is] small?”

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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