Amos 7:5
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New International Version (©2011)
Then I cried out, "Sovereign LORD, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!"

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, please stop or we will not survive, for Israel is so small."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then I said, “O Lord GOD, please cease! How can Jacob stand? He is so small!”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How can Jacob stand, for he is small?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then I said, "Lord GOD, please stop! How will Jacob survive since he is so small?"

International Standard Version (©2012)
So I kept on saying, "Lord GOD, forgive—please! How will Jacob stand, since he is so small?"

NET Bible (©2006)
I said, "Sovereign LORD, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then I said, "Almighty LORD, please stop! How can [the descendants of] Jacob survive? There are so few of them."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

American King James Version
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?

Darby Bible Translation
Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

World English Bible
Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."

Young's Literal Translation
Lord Jehovah, cease, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise -- for he is small?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-9 God bears long, but he will not bear always with a provoking people. The remembrance of the mercies we formerly received, like the produce of the earth of the former growth, should make us submissive to the will of God, when we meet with disappointments in the latter growth. The Lord has many ways of humbling a sinful nation. Whatever trouble we are under, we should be most earnest with God for the forgiveness of sin. Sin will soon make a great people small. What will become of Israel, if the hand that should raise him be stretched out against him? See the power of prayer. See what a blessing praying people are to a land. See how ready, how swift God is to show mercy; how he waits to be gracious. Israel was a wall, a strong wall, which God himself reared as a defence to his sanctuary. The Lord now seems to stand upon this wall. He measures it; it appears to be a bowing, bulging wall. Thus God would bring the people of Israel to the trial, would discover their wickedness; and the time will come, when those who have been spared often, shall be spared no longer. But the Lord still calls Israel his people. The repeated prayer and success of the prophet should lead us to seek the Saviour.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 5, 6. - The intercession is the same as in ver. 2, except that the prophet says cease instead of "forgive;" and in effect the tide of war was rolled back from Israel, and Samaria itself was spared for the time.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee,.... From destroying the land; suffer not this calamity to proceed any further; using the same argument as before:

by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small; See Gill on Amos 7:2.

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The Locusts, Fire, and Plumbline
…4Thus has the Lord GOD showed to me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part. 5Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small. 6The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, said the Lord GOD. …

Psalm 85:4 Restore us again, God our Savior, and put away your displeasure toward us.
Joel 2:17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, "Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"
Amos 7:2 When they had stripped the land clean, I cried out, "Sovereign LORD, forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!"
Zechariah 4:10 "Who dares despise the day of small things, since the seven eyes of the LORD that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone in the hand of Zerubbabel?"