Amos 7:5

Christian Standard Bible ®

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

Parallel Translations

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?"

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

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

¹The Lord God showed me this: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the time the spring crop first began to sprout—after the cutting of the king’s hay. ²When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord God, please forgive! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?” ³The Lord relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” he said. ⁴The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land. ⁵Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”⁶The Lord relented concerning this. “This will not happen either,” said the Lord God. ⁷He showed me this: The Lord was standing there by a vertical wall with a plumb line in his hand. ⁸The Lord asked me, “What do you see, Amos?” ⁹Isaac’s high places will be deserted,and Israel’s sanctuaries will be in ruins;I will rise up against the house of Jeroboamwith a sword.”

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
And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.

Exodus 39:32
So all the work for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:16
Moses did everything just as the Lord had commanded him.

Psalms 119:6
Then I would not be ashamedwhen I think about all your commands.

Matthew 3:15
Jesus answered him, “Allow it for now, because this is the way for us to fulfill all righteousness.”

Luke 8:21
But he replied to them, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear and do the word of God.”

John 2:5
“Do whatever he tells you,” his mother told the servants.

John 13:17
If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

Philippians 2:8
he humbled himself by becoming obedientto the point of death—even to death on a cross.

Hebrews 5:8
Although he was the Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered.

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.