Amos 7:5

WEB

⁵Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

KJV

⁵Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

BSB

⁵Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

FBV

⁵I pleaded with the Lord God, “Please stop! How can the descendants of Jacob survive? They are so weak.”

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Extra References

Psalms 85:4

⁴Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

Isaiah 1:9

⁹Unless the LORD of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

Isaiah 10:25

²⁵For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you will be accomplished, and my anger will be directed to his destruction.”

¹⁷Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, LORD, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

Amos 7:2-3

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.”

³The LORD relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says the LORD.

Jeremiah 30:19

¹⁹Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.