Amos 7:6
Yahweh relented concerning this, “This also will not happen,” said the Lord Yahweh.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
In Context
5But I said, “Lord Yahweh, please stop; how will Jacob survive? For he is so small.”
7This is what he showed me: Look, the Lord stood beside a wall, with a plumb line in his hand.
Cross References
Judges 2:18When Yahweh raised up judges for them, Yahweh helped the judges and rescued them from the hand of their enemies all the days the judge lived. Yahweh had pity on them as they groaned because of those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
1 Chronicles 21:15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy it, Yahweh watched and changed his mind about the harm. He said to the destroying angel, “Enough! Now draw back your hand.” At that time the angel of Yahweh was standing at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Psalms 90:13Turn back, Yahweh! How long will it be? 1 Have pity on your servants. 1
Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all of Judah put him to death? Did he not fear Yahweh and appease the face of Yahweh so that Yahweh would relent concerning the disaster that he proclaimed to them? So will we do greater evil against our own lives?”
Amos 7:3Yahweh relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” he said.
Jonah 4:2So Jonah prayed to Yahweh and said, “Ah, Yahweh, is this not just what I said when I was back in my own country? That is why I acted first and tried to flee to Tarshish—because I knew that you are a gracious God, compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in covenant faithfulness, and you hold back from sending disaster.
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 →