Amos 7:5

Contemporary English Version

Then I said, "Won't you please stop? How can our weak nation survive?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”

Hebrew Names Version
Then I said, "Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Ya`akov stand? For he is small."

King James Version (1611)
Then said I, O Lord God , cease, I beseech thee, by whom shal Iacob arise? for he is small.

King James Version
Then said I, O Lord God , cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

English Standard Version
Then I said, "O Lord God , please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

New American Standard Bible
Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand? For he is small."

New Century Version
Then I cried out, "Lord God , stop! How could Israel live through this? It is too small already."

Amplified Bible
Then I said, "O Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand, For he is so small [that he cannot endure this]?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseeche thee: who shal raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?"

Legacy Standard Bible
Then I said,"Lord Yahweh, please stop!How can Jacob rise up, for he is small?"

Berean Standard Bible
Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?"

Complete Jewish Bible
But I said, "Adonai Elohim , stop — please! How will tiny Ya‘akov survive?"

Darby Translation
Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

Easy-to-Read Version
But I said, "Lord God , stop, I beg you! Jacob cannot survive! He is too small!"

George Lamsa Translation
Then I said, O LORD God, forgive. Who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in numbers.

Good News Translation
Then I said, "Stop, O Sovereign Lord ! How can your people survive? They are so small and weak!"

Lexham English Bible
Then I said, "O Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob stand, because he is small?"

Literal Translation
Then I said, Lord Jehovah, I beg You, stop. How can Jacob rise up? For he is small.

American Standard Version
Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

Bible in Basic English
Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then said I: O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then sayde I, O Lorde God, ceasse I beseche thee: who shall rayse vp Iacob? for he is smal.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then I said, O Lord, cease, I pray thee: who shall raise up Jacob? for he is small in number. Repent, O Lord, for this.

English Revised Version
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

World English Bible
Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y seide, Lord God, Y biseche, reste thou; who schal reise Jacob, for he is litil?

Update Bible Version
Then I said, O Lord Yahweh, cease, I urge you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.

New English Translation
I said, "Sovereign Lord , stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!"

New King James Version
Then I said: "O Lord GOD, cease, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"

New Living Translation
Then I said, "O Sovereign Lord , please stop or we will not survive, for Israel is so small."

New Life Bible
Then I said, "Lord God, I beg You to stop! How can Jacob stay alive, for he is so small?"

New Revised Standard
Then I said, "O Lord God , cease, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said I, My Lord, Yahweh, forbear, I beseech thee, By whom shall Jacob, arise? for, small, he is.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?

Revised Standard Version
Then I said, "O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"

Young's Literal Translation
`Lord Jehovah, cease, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise -- for he [is] small?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde I: O LORDE God, holde thyne honde: for who shulde els helpe vp Iacob that is brought so lowe?

THE MESSAGE
I said, " God , my Master! Hold it—please! What's going to come of Jacob? He's so small."

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord God showed me that he is going to send locusts to attack your crops. It will happen after the king has already been given his share of the grain and before the rest of the grain has been harvested. ² In my vision the locusts ate every crop in the land, and I said to the Lord , "Forgive me for asking, but how can the nation survive? It's so weak." ³ Then the Lord felt sorry and answered, "I won't let it be destroyed." ⁴ The Lord showed me that he is going to send a ball of fire to burn up everything on earth, including the ocean. ⁵ Then I said, "Won't you please stop? How can our weak nation survive?" ⁶ Again the Lord felt sorry and answered, "I won't let it be destroyed." ⁷ The Lord showed me a vision of himself standing beside a wall and holding a string with a weight tied to the end of it. The string and weight had been used to measure the straightness of the wall. ⁸ Then he asked, "Amos, what do you see?" "A measuring line," I answered. The Lord said, "I'm using this measuring line to show that my people Israel don't measure up, and I won't forgive them any more. ⁹ Their sacred places will be destroyed, and I will send war against the nation of King Jeroboam."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cease: Amos 7:2, Psalms 85:4, Isaiah 10:25

for: Amos 7:2, Amos 7:3, Isaiah 1:9, Jeremiah 30:19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:19 - But the Ezekiel 11:13 - Ah Joel 2:17 - Spare

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything the Lord told him to do.

Exodus 39:32
So the people of Israel finished making everything the Lord had told Moses to make.

Exodus 40:16
Moses followed the Lord 's instructions.

Psalms 119:6
Thinking about your commands will keep me from doing some foolish thing.

Matthew 3:15
Jesus answered, "For now this is how it should be, because we must do all that God wants us to do." Then John agreed.

Luke 8:21
Jesus answered, "My mother and my brothers are those people who hear and obey God's message."

John 2:5
Mary then said to the servants, "Do whatever Jesus tells you to do."

John 13:17
You know these things, and God will bless you, if you do them.

Philippians 2:8
Christ was humble. He obeyed God and even died on a cross.

Hebrews 5:8
Jesus is God's own Son, but still he had to suffer before he could learn what it really means to obey God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee,.... From destroying the land; suffer not this calamity to proceed any further; using the same argument as before:

by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As 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 back like an ebb-tide, swept away to ravage other countries, and spared the capital? And who, looking at the mere outside of things, would have thought that that tide of fire was rolled back, not by anything in that day, but by the prophet’s prayer some 47 years before? Man would look doubtless for motives of human policy, which led Tiglath-pileser to accept tribute from Pekah, while he killed Rezin; and while he carried off all the Syrians of Damascus, to leave half of Israel to be removed by his successor.

Humanly speaking, it was a mistake. He “scotched” his enemy only, and left him to make alliance with Egypt, his rival, who disputed with him the possession of the countries which lay between them. If we knew the details of Assyrian policy, we might know what induced him to turn aside in his conquest. There were, and always are, human motives. They do not interfere with the ground in the mind of God, who directs and controls them. Even in human contrivances, the wheels, interlacing one another, and acting one on the other, do but transmit, the one to the other, the motion and impulse which they have received from the central force. The revolution of the earth around its own center does not interfere with, rather it is a condition of its revolving round the center of our system, and, amidst the alternations of night and day, brings each several portion within the influence of the sun around which it revolves. The affairs of human kingdoms have their own subordinate centers of human policy, yet even thereby they the more revolve in the circuit of God’s appointment. In the history of His former people God gives us a glimpse into a hidden order of things, the secret spring and power of His wisdom, which sets in motion that intricate and complex machinery which alone we see, and in the sight of which people lose the consciousness of the unseen agency. While man strives with man, prayer, suggested by God, moves God, the Ruler of all.