God’s Word Translation
Amos 7:5
5Then I said, “Almighty Lord, please stop! How can ⌞the descendants of⌟ Jacob survive? There are so few of them.”
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
3The Lord changed his plans about this. “This won’t happen,” the Lord said. 4This is what the Almighty Lord showed me: The Almighty Lord was calling for judgment by fire. The fire dried up the ocean and burned up the land. Then I said, “Almighty Lord, please stop! How can ⌞the descendants of⌟ Jacob survive? There are so few of them.” 6The Lord changed his plans about this. “This won’t happen either,” the Almighty Lord said. 7This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall built with the use of a plumb line, and he had a plumb line in his hand.
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וָאֹמַ֗ר אֲדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ חֲדַל־נָ֔א מִ֥י יָק֖וּם יַעֲקֹ֑ב כִּ֥י קָטֹ֖ן הֽוּא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Amos 7:5
- Amos 7:2When the locusts had finished eating every plant in the land, I said, “Almighty Lord, please forgive us! How can ⌞the descendants of⌟ Jacob survive? There are so few of them.”
- Psalms 85:4Restore us, O God, our savior. Put an end to your anger against us.
- Isaiah 10:25Very soon I will unleash my fury, and my anger will destroy them.
- Isaiah 1:9If the Lord of Armies hadn’t left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Jeremiah 30:19The people who live there will sing songs of praise, and the sound of laughter will be heard from there. I’ll make them numerous, and their number won’t decrease. I’ll bring them honor, and they won’t be considered unimportant.
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
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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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