Amos 7:6
The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.
Amos 7:6 in other translations
| BSB | So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD. |
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| WEB | The LORD relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord GOD. |
| ASV | Jehovah repented concerning this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord Jehovah. |
| YLT | Jehovah hath repented of this, ‘It also shall not be,' said the Lord Jehovah. |
| DARBY | Jehovah repented for this: This also shall not be, said the Lord Jehovah. |
| BBE | The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be. |
| Webster | The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD. |
What does Amos 7:6 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 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…
Amos 7:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Amos 7:6
- Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
- Amos 7:3
The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord.
- Judges 10:16
And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the Lord: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- Jonah 4:2
And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
- Psalms 135:14
For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
- Jonah 3:10
And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
- Judges 2:18
And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
- Psalms 90:13
Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
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Context
- Amos 7:5
Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
- Amos 7:6
The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.
- Amos 7:7
Thus he shewed me: and, behold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand.
Amos 7:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Arrepintióse Jehová de esto: No será esto tampoco, dijo el Señor Jehová. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | L’ Éternel se repentit de cela: cela aussi ne sera pas, dit le Seigneur, l’ Éternel. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jehova ließ sich dieses gereuen: auch das soll nicht geschehen, sprach der Herr, Jehova. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Misertus est Dominus super hoc: Sed et istud non erit, dixit Dominus Deus. |