Amos 7:5 - The Scriptures 2009

⁵ and I said, “O Master יהוה, please stop! How does Ya‛aqoḇ survive, for he is small?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I pray You! How can Jacob stand? He is so little!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

Common English Bible

⁵ Then I said, “LORD God, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And I said, "Lord God, cease, I beg you. Who will raise up Jacob, for he is little?"

Amos 7:5 Cross References

Psalm 85:4

Turn back to us, O Elohim of our deliverance, And cause Your vexation toward us to cease.

Isaiah 1:9

Unless יהוה of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Seḏom, we would have been made like Amorah.

Isaiah 10:25

“For yet a little while and the displeasure shall be completed, and My displeasure be to their destruction.”

Jeremiah 30:19

And out of them shall arise thanksgiving and the voice of those who are laughing. And I shall increase them, and they shall not diminish. And I shall esteem them, and they shall not be small.

Ezekiel 9:8

And as they were striking them it came to be that I alone was left. And I fell on my face and cried out, and said, “Ah, Master יהוה! Are You destroying all the remnant of Yisra’ĕl in pouring out Your wrath on Yerushalayim?”

Joel 2:17

Let the priests, servants of יהוה, weep between the porch and the slaughter-place. And let them say, “Spare Your people, O יהוה, and do not give Your inheritance to reproach, for the nations to rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their Elohim?’ ”

Zechariah 4:10

“For who has despised the day of small beginnings? They shall rejoice when they see the plumb-line in the hand of Zerubbaḇel. These seven are the eyes of יהוה, which diligently search throughout all the earth.”

Numbers 14:19

Please forgive the crookedness of this people, according to the greatness of Your loving-commitment, as You have forgiven this people, from Mitsrayim even until now.