Amos 7:5

Good News Translation

Then I said, “Stop, O Sovereign Lord! How can your people survive? They are so small and weak!”

Cross References

Psalm 85:4

Bring us back, O God our savior, and stop being displeased with us!

Isaiah 1:9

If the Lord Almighty had not let some of the people survive, Jerusalem would have been totally destroyed, just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.

Isaiah 10:25

In only a little while I will finish punishing you, and then I will destroy them.

Jeremiah 30:19

The people who live there will sing praise; they will shout for joy. By my blessing they will increase in numbers; my blessing will bring them honor.

Ezekiel 9:8

While the killing was going on, I was there alone. I threw myself face downward on the ground and shouted, “Sovereign Lord, are you so angry with Jerusalem that you are going to kill everyone left in Israel?”

Joel 2:17

The priests, serving the Lord between the altar and the entrance of the Temple, must weep and pray: “Have pity on your people, Lord. Do not let other nations despise us and mock us by saying, ‘Where is your God?’”

Numbers 14:19

And now, Lord, according to the greatness of your unchanging love, forgive, I pray, the sin of these people, just as you have forgiven them ever since they left Egypt.”