Amos 7:6

So the Lord repented for this. This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseeche thee: who shall raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.

7Thus againe he shewed me, and behold, the Lord stoode vpon a wall made by line with a line in his hand.

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Cross References

Judges 2:18And when the Lord had raysed them vp Iudges, the Lord was with the Iudge, and deliuered them out of the hande of their enemies all the dayes of the Iudge (for the Lord had compassion on their gronings, because of them that oppressed them and tormented them)

1 Chronicles 21:15And God sent the Angel into Ierusalem to destroy it. And as he was destroying, the Lord behelde, and repented of the euill and sayde to the Angel that destroyed, It is nowe ynough, let thine hande cease. Then the Angel of the Lord stoode by the thresshing floore of Ornan the Iebusite.

Psalms 90:13Returne (O Lord, howe long?) and be pacified toward thy seruants.

Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah King of Iudah, and all Iudah put him to death? did he not feare ye Lord, and prayed before the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the plague, that he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great euill against our soules.

Amos 7:3So the Lord repented for this. It shall not be, saith the Lord.

Jonah 4:2And he prayed vnto the Lord, and saide, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? therefore I preuented it to flee vnto Tarshish: for I knewe that thou art a gratious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindnes, and repentest thee of the euill.

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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