Sinai LogoSinai

Amos 7:5

World English Bible

Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”

Read all of Amos 7Open in the Sinai app

Amos 7:5 in other translations

Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

Amos 7:5 · American Standard Version

Amos 7:5 in context

  1. 3Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.
  2. 4Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
  3. 5Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
  4. 6Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
  5. 7Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.