Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Amos 7:5 in context
Amos 7:2–8
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When they finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, “Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
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The LORD relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says the LORD.
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Thus the Lord GOD showed me: behold, the Lord GOD called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
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Then I said, “Lord GOD, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
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The LORD relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord GOD.
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Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
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The LORD said to me, “Amos, what do you see?”
I said, “A plumb line.”
Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.
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