Amos 7:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 blot out from the earth the humans I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air—for I am sorry that I have made them.”

1 Chronicles 21:15

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, but when he was about to destroy it, the Lord took note and relented concerning the calamity; he said to the destroying angel, “Enough! Stay your hand.” The angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Psalm 106:45

For their sake he remembered his covenant and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.

Psalm 135:14

For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants.

Psalm 78:38

Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them; often he restrained his anger and did not stir up all his wrath.

Psalm 90:13

Turn, O Lord! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Exodus 32:14

And the Lord changed his mind about the disaster that he planned to bring on his people.

Jeremiah 26:19

“Did King Hezekiah of Judah and all Judah actually put him to death? Did he not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great disaster on ourselves!”

Jeremiah 42:10

If you will only remain in this land, then I will build you up and not pull you down; I will plant you and not pluck you up, for I am sorry for the disaster that I have brought upon you.

Joel 2:13

rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Amos 7:3

The Lord relented concerning this; “It shall not be,” said the Lord.

Amos 7:7

This is what he showed me: the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

Jonah 3:10

When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning, for I knew that you are a gracious and merciful God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from punishment.

Judges 10:16

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he could no longer bear to see Israel suffer.

Judges 2:18

Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, for the Lord would be moved to pity by their groaning because of those who persecuted and oppressed them.