Amos 7:5 BSB — MannaFest

Amos 7:5

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Amos (420)

(Vers. 4 seqq.) This the Lord God showed me, and behold, the Lord God called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and will consume it together with a portion. And I said: O Lord God, please cease; who will raise up Jacob since he is small? The Lord had mercy on this also, but even this shall not be, said the Lord God. LXX: Thus the Lord God showed me, and behold, He called for judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and consumed a portion.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

As our Lord repeated the same words in the Garden, so Amos interceded with God with words, all but one, the same, and with the same plea, that, if God did not help, Israel was indeed helpless. Yet a second time God spared Israel. To human sight, what so strange and unexpected, as that the Assyrian and his army, having utterly destroyed the kingdom of Damascus, and carried away its people, and having devoured, like fire, more than half of Israel, rolled back like an ebb-tide, swept away to ravage other countries, and spared the capital?

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וָאֹמַ֗ר	va.'o.Mar	and I said	H559 →
אֲדֹנָ֤י	'a.do.Nai	O Lord	H136 →
יְהוִה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3069 →
חֲדַל־	cha.dal-	cease	H2308 →
נָ֔א	Na'	please	H4994 →
מִ֥י	mi	who?	H4310 →
יָק֖וּם	ya.Kum	will he stand	H6965 →
יַעֲקֹ֑ב	ya.'a.Ko	Jacob	H3290 →
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
קָטֹ֖ן	ka.Ton	[is] small	H6996 →
הֽוּא׃	Hu'	he	H1931 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 30:19
Thanksgiving will proceed from them, a sound of celebration. I will multiply them, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be belittled.
leads to
- Jeremiah 33:22
  As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister…
- Isaiah 51:11
  So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
- Isaiah 60:22
  The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.
- Isaiah 35:10
  So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
- Ezekiel 36:37
  This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.
Through
Isaiah 1:9
Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
leads to
- Romans 9:29
  It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
- Isaiah 37:31–32
  And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.
- Genesis 19:24
  Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

About Amos

The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Amos: the study guide →Read chapter 7 →The featured study →

PersonPatriarchsJacobThe heel-grasping supplanter reshaped at Peniel into 'Israel, he who strives with God' — father of the twelve tribes.

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06About Amos

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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About Amos