Revised Literal Translation
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
3Yhwh repented for this: It shall not be, saith Yhwh. 4Thus hath the Lord Yhwh shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord Yhwh called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. Then said I, O Lord Yhwh, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 6Yhwh repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord Yhwh. 7Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
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וָאֹמַ֗ר אֲדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ חֲדַל־נָ֔א מִ֥י יָק֖וּם יַעֲקֹ֑ב כִּ֥י קָטֹ֖ן הֽוּא׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Amos 7:5
- Amos 7:2And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord Yhwh, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
- Psalms 85:4Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
- Isaiah 10:25For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
- Isaiah 1:9Except Yhwh of Armies had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
- Jeremiah 30:19And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
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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Notes
- 1. Amos 7:5 by…: or, who of (or, for,) Jacob shall stand? ↩
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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