Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Then I said, O lord LORD, cease, I beseech thee. How shall Jacob stand, for he is small?
New American Standard Bible
Then I said,
“
King James Version
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Holman Bible
Then I said, “Lord God, please stop!
International Standard Version
So I kept on saying, "Lord GOD, forgive please! How will Jacob stand, since he is so small?"
American Standard Version
Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Amplified
Then I said,
How can Jacob stand,
For he is so small [that he cannot endure this]?”
Bible in Basic English
Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
Darby Translation
Then said I, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I beseech thee! How shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Julia Smith Translation
And saying, O Lord Jehovah, cease now: who shall cause Jacob to rise? for he is small.
King James 2000
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then I said, " Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob stand, because he [is] small?"
Modern King James verseion
Then I said, O Lord Jehovah, I pray You, cease. How can Jacob stand? For he is small.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then said I, "O LORD God, hold thine hand: who should else help up Jacob that is brought so low?"
NET Bible
I said, "Sovereign Lord, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!"
New Heart English Bible
Then I said, "Lord GOD, stop, I beg you. How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
The Emphasized Bible
Then said I, My Lord, Yahweh, forbear, I beseech thee, By whom shall Jacob, arise? for, small, he is.
Webster
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."
Youngs Literal Translation
Lord Jehovah, cease, I pray Thee, How doth Jacob arise -- for he is small?'
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 7:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Second Vision: Fire
4 Thus lord LORD showed me: And, behold, lord LORD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land. 5 Then I said, O lord LORD, cease, I beseech thee. How shall Jacob stand, for he is small? 6 LORD relented concerning this. This also shall not be, says lord LORD.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 85:4
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine indignation toward us to cease.
Isaiah 1:9
Unless LORD of hosts had left to us a {seed (LXX/NT)}, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like Gomorrah.
Isaiah 10:25
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall be accomplished, and my anger [is] to his destruction.
Jeremiah 30:19
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry. And I will multiply them, and they shall not be few. I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and do not give thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among t
Amos 7:2-3
And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O lord LORD, forgive, I beseech thee. How shall Jacob stand, for he is small?