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

3Then the Lord decided not to do it. He said to me, ‘That will not happen.’ 4After that, the Lord God showed to me a vision of a fire. He was ready to send it to punish us. I saw that it caused the deep sea to become dry. It also burnt all the land. I said, ‘Lord God, please do not do that! Your people cannot continue to live. We are too weak!’ 6Then the Lord decided not to do it. He said to me, ‘That too will not happen.’ 7Then the Lord showed this vision to me. The Lord God was standing next to a wall. In his hand was a string with a heavy weight on its end. The Lord was hanging the string down the wall. He was looking to see whether the wall was straight.

Amos 7:5 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Then saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• I, O Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
• Godיְהֹוִהyehôvih · YHWH/GodH3069
• ceaseחָדַלchâdal · to ceaseH2308
• I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacobיַעֲקֹבya‛ăqôb · JacobH3290
• ariseקוּםqûm · to arise: establishH6965
• smallקָטֹןqâţân qâţôn · smallH6996

Cross-references for Amos 7:5

• Amos 7:2I saw that the locusts came and they ate everything. I asked the Lord, ‘Lord God, please forgive your people. We cannot continue to live if those locusts destroy our food. We are too weak!’
• Psalms 85:4But now turn back to us, and make us strong again, God. You are the one who rescues us. Please stop being angry with us.
• Isaiah 10:25But soon I will be angry with you no longer. Instead, I will be angry with the Assyrians, and I will be ready to destroy them.’
• Isaiah 1:9Unless the Lord Almighty had left some of us alive, we would have become like Sodom. We would have been completely destroyed, like Gomorrah.
• Jeremiah 30:19In those places you will hear happy songs, as people thank God. People will laugh aloud because they are so happy. I will make them grow in number. Their descendants will be many. I will cause other nations to give them honour. They will no longer insult my people.

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