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Amos 7:6

So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

Amos 7:6 · BSB

Amos 7:6 in context

The verses around it, from Amos 7.

2 And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

3 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.

4 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.

5 Then I said, “Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

6 So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.

7 This is what He showed me: Behold, the Lord was standing by a wall true to plumb, with a plumb line in His hand.

8 “Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

9 The high places of Isaac will be deserted, and the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with My sword.”

10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,

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Amos 7:6 in other translations

KJV

The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

ASV

Jehovah repented concerning this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord Jehovah.

ERV

The LORD repented concerning this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

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