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Amos 7:6
Amos 7:6 is verse 6 of Amos chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
King James Version
The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
World English Bible
Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
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Amos 7:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
8 “Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Judges 2:18Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
Judges 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
Psalms 90:13Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
Psalms 135:14For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.
Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”
Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.