Amos 7:6

New American Bible - revised edition

The Lord relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.

Cross References

Genesis 6:7

So the Lord said: I will wipe out from the earth the human beings I have created, and not only the human beings, but also the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air, for I regret that I made them.

1 Chronicles 21:15

God also sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as the angel was on the point of destroying it, the Lord saw and changed his mind about the calamity, and said to the destroying angel, “Enough now! Stay your hand!” Ornan’s Threshing Floor. The angel of the Lord was then standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Psalm 106:45

For their sake he remembered his covenant and relented in his abundant mercy,

Psalm 135:14

For the Lord defends his people, shows mercy to his servants.

Psalm 78:38

But God being compassionate forgave their sin; he did not utterly destroy them. Time and again he turned back his anger, unwilling to unleash all his rage.

Psalm 90:13

Relent, O Lord! How long? Have pity on your servants!

Exodus 32:14

So the Lord changed his mind about the punishment he had threatened to inflict on his people.

Jeremiah 26:19

Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah condemn him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, so that the Lord had a change of heart regarding the evil he had spoken against them? We, however, are about to do great evil against ourselves.” The Fate of Uriah.

Jeremiah 42:10

If indeed you will remain in this land, I will build you up, and not tear you down; I will plant you, not uproot you; for I repent of the evil I have done you.

Joel 2:13

Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God, For he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting in punishment.

Amos 7:3

The Lord relented concerning this. “This shall not be,” said the Lord God.

Amos 7:7

This is what the Lord God showed me: He was standing, plummet in hand, by a wall built with a plummet.

Jonah 3:10

When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord, “O Lord, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I fled at first toward Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in kindness, repenting of punishment.

Judges 10:16

And they cast out the foreign gods from their midst and served the Lord, so that he grieved over the misery of Israel.

Judges 2:18

When the Lord raised up judges for them, he would be with the judge and save them from the power of their enemies as long as the judge lived. The Lord would change his mind when they groaned in their affliction under their oppressors.