And it came about, [a]when it had (A)finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,

(B)Lord God, please pardon!
How can Jacob stand?
For he is (C)small.”
The Lord (D)relented of this.
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

So the Lord God showed me, and behold, the Lord God was calling to contend with them by (E)fire, and it consumed the great deep and began to consume the [b]farmland.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:2 Lit if
  2. Amos 7:4 Lit plot of land

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

So the Lord relented.(D)

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

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire;(F) it dried up the great deep and devoured(G) the land.

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