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Amos 7:5
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Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?”
Then I said, "Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Ya`akov stand? For he is small."
Then said I, O Lord God , cease, I beseech thee, by whom shal Iacob arise? for he is small.
Then said I, O Lord God , cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Then I said, "O Lord God , please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand? For he is small."
Then I cried out, "Lord God , stop! How could Israel live through this? It is too small already."
Then I said, "O Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand, For he is so small [that he cannot endure this]?"
Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseeche thee: who shal raise vp Iaakob? for he is small.
Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?"
Then I said,"Lord Yahweh, please stop!How can Jacob rise up, for he is small?"
Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?"
Then I said, "Won't you please stop? How can our weak nation survive?"
But I said, "Adonai Elohim , stop — please! How will tiny Ya‘akov survive?"
Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
But I said, "Lord God , stop, I beg you! Jacob cannot survive! He is too small!"
Then I said, O LORD God, forgive. Who shall raise up Jacob? For he is small in numbers.
Then I said, "Stop, O Sovereign Lord ! How can your people survive? They are so small and weak!"
Then I said, "O Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob stand, because he is small?"
Then I said, Lord Jehovah, I beg You, stop. How can Jacob rise up? For he is small.
Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
Then said I: O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Then sayde I, O Lorde God, ceasse I beseche thee: who shall rayse vp Iacob? for he is smal.
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.
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
And Y seide, Lord God, Y biseche, reste thou; who schal reise Jacob, for he is litil?
Then I said, O Lord Yahweh, cease, I urge you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
I said, "Sovereign Lord , stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!"
Then I said: "O Lord GOD, cease, I pray! Oh, that Jacob may stand, For he is small!"
Then I said, "O Sovereign Lord , please stop or we will not survive, for Israel is so small."
Then I said, "O Lord God , cease, I beg you! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
Then said I, My Lord, Yahweh, forbear, I beseech thee, By whom shall Jacob, arise? for, small, he is.
And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?
Then I said, "O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!"
`Lord Jehovah, cease, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise -- for he [is] small?'
Then sayde I: O LORDE God, holde thyne honde: for who shulde els helpe vp Iacob that is brought so lowe?
I said, " God , my Master! Hold it—please! What's going to come of Jacob? He's so small."
Contextual Overview
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
Noah did just what God told him to do.
So all the work of the holy tent, the meeting tent, was finished. The sons of Israel did all that the Lord had told Moses.
Moses did all that the Lord told him to do.
Then I will not be put to shame when I respect Your Word.
Jesus said to him, "Let it be done now. We should do what is right." John agreed and baptized Jesus.
Jesus said to them, "My mother and brothers are these who hear the Word of God and do it."
His mother said to the helpers, "Do whatever He says."
If you know these things, you will be happy if you do them.
After He became a man, He gave up His important place and obeyed by dying on a cross.
Even being God's Son, He learned to obey by the things 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.
