Amos 7:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?””
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“Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Lord Jehovah, cease, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise--for he <FI>is<Fi> small?'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Amos 7:5 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 14:19Pardon, I pray, the iniquity of this people, in keeping with the greatness of Your loving devotion, just as You have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”
- Psalms 85:4Restore us, O God of our salvation, and put away Your displeasure toward us.
- Isaiah 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
- Isaiah 10:25For in just a little while My fury against you will subside, and My anger will turn to their destruction.”
- Jeremiah 30:19Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
- Ezekiel 9:8While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”
- Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- Amos 7:2And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”
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