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Amos 7:5
Amos 7:5 is verse 5 of Amos chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
King James Version
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
World English Bible
Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
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Amos 7:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
4 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
5 Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
6 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
7 This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Amos 7:2And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
Psalms 85:4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
Isaiah 10:25For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
Amos 7:3So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
Isaiah 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 30:19Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.