Amos 7:5
Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
World English Bible British
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
6The LORD relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord GOD.
Cross References
Psalms 85:4Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation towards us to cease.
Isaiah 10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”
Ezekiel 9:8While they were killing, and I was left, I fell on my face, and cried, and said, “Ah Lord GOD! Will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your pouring out of your wrath on Jerusalem?”
Amos 7:2When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? 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 →