English Standard Version
Amos 7:3
3The Lord relented concerning this: "It shall not be," said the Lord.
Amos 7:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)So the Lord relented. “This will not happen,” the Lord said.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So the Lord relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” said the Lord.
- New Living Translation (NLT)So the Lord relented from this plan. “I will not do it,” he said.
Context of Amos 7:3
1This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, he was forming locusts when the latter growth was just beginning to sprout, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings. 2When they had finished eating the grass of the land, I said, "O Lord God, please forgive! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!" The Lord relented concerning this: "It shall not be," said the Lord. 4This is what the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. 5Then I said, "O Lord God, please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
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נִחַ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה עַל־זֹ֑את לֹ֥א תִהְיֶ֖ה אָמַ֥ר יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Amos 7:3
- Amos 7:6The Lord relented concerning this: "This also shall not be," said the Lord God.
- Deuteronomy 32:36For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone and there is none remaining, bond or free.
- 1 Chronicles 21:15And God sent the angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but as he was about to destroy it, the Lord saw, and he relented from the calamity. And he said to the angel who was working destruction, "It is enough; now stay your hand." And the angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- Psalms 106:45For their sake he remembered his covenant, and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
- Hosea 11:8How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender.
- Joel 2:14Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?
- Jonah 3:10When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it.
- James 5:16Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Commentaries on Amos 7:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3The Lord repented - Changed his purpose of destroying them by the locusts. See Amos 7:6.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The Lord repented for this - God is said to “repent, to have strong compassion upon” or “over” evil, which He has either inflicted Deuteronomy 32:36; 1 Chronicles 21:15, or has said that He would inflict Exodus 32:12; Joel 2:13; Jonah 3:10; Jeremiah 18:8, and which, upon repentance or prayer, He suspends or checks. Here, Amos does not intercede until after the judgment had been, in part, inflicted. He prayed, when in vision the locust “had made an end of…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. 33. repented for this--that is, of this. The change was not in the mind of God (Nu 2:19; Jas 1:17), but in the effect outwardly. God unchangeably does what is just; it is just that He should hear intercessory prayer (Jas 5:16-18), as it would have been just for Him to have let judgment take its course at once on the guilty nation, but for the prayer of one or two righteous men in it (compare Ge 18:23-33; 1Sa 15:11; Jr 42:10). The repentance of the sinner…Read the comment
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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
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