When they had stripped the land clean,(A) I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, forgive! How can Jacob survive?(B) He is so small!(C)

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And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord God, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

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And so it was, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, that I said:

“O Lord God, forgive, I pray!
(A)Oh,[a] that Jacob may stand,
For he is small!”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:2 Or How shall Jacob stand

So the Lord relented.(A)

“This will not happen,” the Lord said.(B)

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The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord.

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So (A)the Lord relented concerning this.
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

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