Amos 7:6

Hashem relented for this: 1 This also shall not be, saith Adonoi Hashem.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Then said I: 1 O Adonoi Hashem, cease, I beseech thee; 1 how shall Ya'akov survive? For he is katon. 1

7Thus He showed me; and, hinei, Hashem stood upon a chomah (wall) made with a plumb line, and a plumb line in His hand.

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Cross References

Judges 2:18And when Hashem raised them up Shofetim, then Hashem was with the Shofet, and saved them out of the yad of their enemies all the days of the Shofet; for it relented Hashem because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and afflicted them.

1 Chronicles 21:15And HaElohim sent a Malach unto Yerushalayim to destroy her, and as he was destroying, Hashem beheld, and He relented Him of the ra'ah, and said to the Malach that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine yad. And the Malach Hashem stood by the goren (threshing floor) of Ornan the Yevusi.

Psalms 90:13Shuvah, Hashem. Ad mosai? 1 Have compassion on Thy avadim. 1

Jeremiah 26:19Did Chizkiyah Melech Yehudah and kol Yehudah put him to death? Did he not fear Hashem, and besought Hashem, and Hashem relented of the ra'ah which He had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure ra'ah gedolah against nafshoteinu.

Amos 7:3Hashem relented for this: 1 It shall not be, saith Hashem.

Jonah 4:2And he davened unto Hashem, and said: I pray Thee, Hashem, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I was quick to flee unto Tarshish before; for I had da'as that Thou art an EL CHANNUN V'RACHUM ERECH APAYIM V'RAV CHESED + 4:2 Ex 34:6 and relentest Thee of the ra'ah.

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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