Amos 7:6

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord GOD said, “It will not happen either.”

Cross References

Jonah 4:2

He complained to the Lord and said, “Lord, I knew this would happen! I was in my own country, and you told me to come here. At that time I knew that you would forgive the people of this evil city, so I decided to run away to Tarshish. I knew that you are a kind God. I knew that you show mercy and don’t want to punish people. I knew that you are kind, and if these people stopped sinning, you would change your plans to destroy them.

Jonah 3:10

God saw what the people did. He saw that they stopped doing evil. So God changed his mind and did not do what he planned. He did not punish the people.

Amos 7:3

Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord said, “It will not happen.”

Jeremiah 26:19

“King Hezekiah of Judah and the people of Judah did not kill Micah. You know that Hezekiah respected the Lord and wanted to please him. So the Lord changed his mind and didn’t do the bad things to Judah that he said he would do. If we hurt Jeremiah, we will bring many troubles on ourselves. And those troubles will be our own fault.”

Psalm 135:14

The Lord defends his people; he is kind to his servants.

Psalm 90:13

Lord, come back to us. Be kind to your servants.

Judges 10:16

Then the Israelites threw away the foreign gods and began to worship the Lord again. So he felt sorry for them when he saw them suffering.

Judges 2:18

Many times the enemies of Israel did bad things to the people, so the Israelites would cry for help. And each time the Lord felt sorry for the people and sent a judge to save them from their enemies. The Lord was always with those judges. Each time the Israelites were saved from their enemies.

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said, “I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because I am sorry that I have made them.”

Psalm 106:45

He always remembered his agreement, and because of his faithful love, he comforted them.

Jeremiah 42:10

‘If you will stay in Judah, I will make you strong—I will not destroy you. I will plant you, and I will not pull you up. I will do this because I am sad about the terrible things that I made happen to you.

Joel 2:13

Tear your hearts, not your clothes.” Come back to the Lord your God. He is kind and merciful. He does not become angry quickly. He has great love. Maybe he will change his mind about the bad punishment he planned.

Amos 7:7

This is what the Lord showed me: He stood by a wall with a plumb line in his hand. (The wall had been marked with a plumb line.)

Exodus 32:14

So the Lord felt sorry for the people. He did not do what he said he might do—he did not destroy them.

1 Chronicles 21:15

God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But when the angel started to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord saw it and felt sorry for all the suffering. So he said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Stop! That is enough!” This happened when the angel of the Lord was standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Psalm 78:38

But God was merciful. He forgave their sins and did not destroy them. Many times he held back his anger. He never let it get out of control.