Amos 7:5

Amos 7:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
• New International Version (NIV)Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”
• English Standard Version (ESV)Then I said, "O Lord God, please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
• New King James Version (NKJV)Then I said: “O Lord God, cease, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!”

Context of Amos 7:5

3So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said. 4This 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. Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?” 6So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD. 7This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.

Amos 7:5 word by word

וָאֹמַ֗ר אֲדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ חֲדַל־נָ֔א מִ֥י יָק֖וּם יַעֲקֹ֑ב כִּ֥י קָטֹ֖ן הֽוּא׃Read the interlinear

• Then I saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
• GODיְהֹוִהyehôvih · YHWH/GodH3069
• pleaseנָאnâ' · pleaseH4994
• stopחָדַלchâdal · to ceaseH2308
• Howמִיmîy · who?H4310
• will Jacobיַעֲקֹבya‛ăqôb · JacobH3290
• surviveקוּםqûm · to arise: establishH6965
• sinceכִּיkîy · forH3588
• heהוּאhû' hîy' · he/she/itH1931
• is so smallקָטֹןqâţân qâţôn · smallH6996

Cross-references for Amos 7:5

• 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.”
• 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.

Commentaries on Amos 7:5

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5As our Lord repeated the same words in the Garden, so Amos interceded with God with words, all but one, the same, and with the same plea, that, if God did not help, Israel was indeed helpless. Yet a second time God spared Israel. To human sight, what so strange and unexpected, as that the Assyrian and his army, having utterly destroyed the kingdom of Damascus, and carried away its people, and having devoured, like fire, more than half of Israel, rolled…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-6The Lord changed his decision twice after Amos prayed on behalf of the people.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-9Am. 7:1-9. The seventh, eighth, and ninth chapters contain Visions, with Their Explanations. The seventh chapter consists of two parts. First (Am 7:1-9): Prophecies Illustrated by Three Symbols: (1) A vision of grasshoppers or young locusts, which devour the grass, but are removed at Amos' entreaty; (2) Fire drying up even the deep, and withering part of the land, but removed at Amos' entreaty; (3) A plumb-line to mark the buildings for destruction…Read the comment

Topics related to Amos 7:5

• Intercession

In the dictionaries

• God
• Jacob
• Jacob, Israel
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Arise
• Contend
• Ezekiel
• How
• Mediation; Mediator
• Writing

Commentaries on Amos 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings