English Standard Version
Amos 7:6
6The Lord relented concerning this: "This also shall not be," said the Lord God.
Amos 7:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.
- New International Version (NIV)So the Lord relented. “This will not happen either,” the Sovereign Lord said.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So the Lord relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Then the Lord relented from this plan, too. “I will not do that either,” said the Sovereign Lord.
Context of Amos 7:6
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!" The Lord relented concerning this: "This also shall not be," said the Lord God. 7This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8And the Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I will never again pass by them;
Read all of Amos 7Amos 7:6 word by word
נִחַ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה עַל־זֹ֑את גַּם־הִיא֙ לֹ֣א תִֽהְיֶ֔ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Amos 7:6
- Judges 2:18Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
- Judges 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.
- Psalms 90:13Return, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!
- Psalms 135:14For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.
- Jeremiah 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord relent of the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster upon ourselves."
- Jonah 4:2And he prayed to the Lord and said, "O Lord, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.
Commentaries on Amos 7:6
- 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
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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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