Amos 7:6

The Lord relented. “This will not happen either,” said the Lord.

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

In Context

5“Lord God, forgive, I beg you! How can Jacob survive, for he is so helpless?”

7This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

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Cross References

Psalms 90:13Return, O Lord; why so long? Relent on your servants.

Amos 7:3The Lord relented. This will not happen,” said the Lord.

Jonah 4:2He prayed to the Lord and said, “Ah, Lord, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? That was why I fled at once to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, patient, and loving and ready to forgive.

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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