5Then I said, |Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.|


In Context

2 It happened that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, |Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.|

3 Yahweh relented concerning this. |It shall not be,| says Yahweh.

4 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.

5 Then I said, |Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.|

6 Yahweh relented concerning this. |This also shall not be,| says the Lord Yahweh.

7 Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

Amos 7:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Then I cried out, "Sovereign Lord , I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:5And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:5Lord Jehovah, cease, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise — for he is small?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:5Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.