Amos 7:5
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Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
In other translations
Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Psalm 85:4Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
- Amos 7:2-32 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.2 And 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?” 3 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
- Jeremiah 30:19And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.Thanksgiving 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.
- Joel 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- Isaiah 1:9Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
- Isaiah 10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
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People: Jacob