Amos 7:6

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

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

In Context

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

7Thus has He showed me, and behold, the Lord is standing by a wall [made according to] a plumb-line, and in His hand a plumb-line;

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Cross References

Judges 2:18And when YHWH raised up judges for them—then YHWH was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all [the] days of the judge; for YHWH sighs, because of their groaning from the presence of their oppressors, and of those thrusting them away.

1 Chronicles 21:15and God sends a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying, YHWH has seen, and is comforted concerning the calamity, and says to the messenger who [is] destroying, “Enough now, cease your hand.” And the messenger of YHWH is standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,

Psalms 90:13Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.

Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear YHWH? Indeed, he appeases the face of YHWH, and YHWH relents concerning the calamity that He spoke against them; and we are doing great evil against our souls.”

Amos 7:3YHWH has relented of this, “It will not be,” said YHWH.

Jonah 4:2and he prays to YHWH, and he says, “Ah, now, O YHWH, is this not my word while I was in my own land—therefore I was beforehand [going] to flee to Tarshish—that I have known that You [are] a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and relenting of evil?

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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