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Amos 7:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord relented concerning this.  ‘It will not happen,’ he said.

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The Lord will indeed vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees that their strength is gone and no one is left #– #slave or free.


God saw their actions #– #that they had turned from their evil ways   #– #so God relented from the disaster  he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.


How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred!


The Lord relented concerning this.  ‘This will not happen either,’ said the Lord God.


Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind him, so that you can offer a grain offering and a drink offering to the Lord your God.


Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is very powerful in its effect.


Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah put him to death? Did not the king fear the Lord and plead for the Lord’s favour,  , and did not the Lord relent concerning the disaster he had pronounced against them?  We are about to bring a terrible disaster on ourselves! ’


Then God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but when the angel was about to destroy the city,  the Lord looked, relented concerning the destruction,  and said to the angel who was destroying the people, ‘Enough, withdraw your hand now! ’ The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing-floor of Ornan  the Jebusite.


Then the Lord said, ‘I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky #– #for I regret that I made them.’


“If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will rebuild and not demolish you,  and I will plant and not uproot you, because I relent concerning the disaster that I have brought on you.


Tear your hearts, not just your clothes, and return to the  Lord your God. For he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in faithful love, and he relents from sending disaster.


Hate evil and love good; establish justice at the city gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.


So the Lord relented  concerning the disaster he had said he would bring on his people.





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