Amos 7:3
New International Version
So the LORD relented. “This will not happen,” the LORD said.

New Living Translation
So the LORD relented from this plan. “I will not do it,” he said.

English Standard Version
The LORD relented concerning this: “It shall not be,” said the LORD.

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

King James Bible
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

New King James Version
So the LORD relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” said the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD relented of this. “It shall not be,” said the LORD.

NASB 1995
The LORD changed His mind about this. “It shall not be,” said the LORD.

NASB 1977
The LORD changed His mind about this. “It shall not be,” said the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” said Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
The LORD revoked this sentence. “It shall not take place,” said the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
The LORD relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” he said.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” He said.

American Standard Version
Jehovah repented concerning this: It shall not be, saith Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
LORD JEHOVAH changed this, and it will not be

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Repent, O Lord, for this. And this shall not be, saith the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Then the LORD felt sorry and answered, "I won't let it be destroyed."

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.

English Revised Version
The LORD repented concerning this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The LORD changed his plans about this. "This won't happen," the LORD said.

Good News Translation
The LORD changed his mind and said, "What you saw will not take place."

International Standard Version
So the LORD relented from this. "This will not happen," said the LORD.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The LORD repented concerning this; 'It shall not be', saith the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
YHWH has relented of this, “It will not be,” said YHWH.

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

New American Bible
The LORD relented concerning this. “This shall not be,” said the Lord GOD.

NET Bible
The LORD decided not to do this. "It will not happen," the LORD said.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD relented concerning this; “It shall not be,” said the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
The LORD relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.

World English Bible
Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah hath repented of this, 'It shall not be,' said Jehovah.

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Context
The Locusts, Fire, and Plumb Line
2And 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?” 3So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said. 4This 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.…

Cross References
Genesis 6:7
So the LORD said, "I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth--every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air--for I am grieved that I have made them."

Deuteronomy 32:36
For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone and no one remains, slave or free.

Psalm 90:13
Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.

Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!"

Jeremiah 42:10
If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.

Hosea 11:8
How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!

Joel 2:13
So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.


Treasury of Scripture

The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, said the LORD.

Amos 7:6
The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.

Deuteronomy 32:36
For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

1 Chronicles 21:15
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

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Amos 7
1. The judgments of the grasshoppers,
4. and of the fire are diverted by the prayer of Amos.
7. By the wall of a plumb line is signified the rejection of Israel.
10. Amaziah complains of Amos.
14. Amos shows his calling
16. and Amaziah's judgment.














(3) The Lord repented.--The judgment is withheld. On the anthropomorphism of Jehovah repenting, comp. Genesis 6:5 and other passages.

Verse 3. - Repented for this; or, concerning this destruction. The punishment was conditioned by man's behaviour or other considerations. Here the prophet's intercession abates the full infliction of the penalty (compare analogous expressions, Deuteronomy 32:36; 1 Samuel 15:11; 2 Samuel 24:16; Jeremiah 18:8; Jeremiah 42:10; Jonah 3:10, where see note). Amos may have had in memory the passage in Joel 2:13. The LXX. here and in ver. 6 has Μετανόησον Κύριε ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ τοῦτο οὐκ ἔσται λέγει Κύριος, "Repent, O Lord, for this; and this shall not be, saith the Lord." Hence some early commentators gathered that the prophet's intercession was rejected; but the words do not necessarily bear that sense (see St. Cyril Alex. and Theodoret, in loc.). It shall not be. This respite refers to the retreat of the Assyrians under Pul, the usurping monarch who assumed the name of Tiglath-Pileser II. (2 Kings 15:17, etc.). Some commentators consider the judgment to be literally plague of locusts; but this is not probable.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

relented
נִחַ֥ם (ni·ḥam)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5162: To sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry, to pity, console, rue, to avenge

from
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

this [plan].
זֹ֑את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

“It will not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

happen,”
תִהְיֶ֖ה (ṯih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

[He]
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

said.
אָמַ֥ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say


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