So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said the Lord GOD.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- KJV The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
- NKJV So the Lord relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” said the Lord God.
- NASB The Lord relented of this. “This too shall not be,” said the Lord God.
- NLT Then the Lord relented from this plan, too. “I will not do that either,” said the Sovereign Lord.
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Quick answer
The Lord again relents and says this judgment too shall not be. God shows mercy a second time in answer to Amos's prayer.
Overview
As with the locusts, God withholds the fire, demonstrating his readiness to spare in response to intercession. His repeated compassion underscores both his patience and the value he places on prayer. This twofold mercy magnifies grace, preparing the way for the decisive mercy God grants through the intercession of Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Jer 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did Hezekiah not fear the LORD and seek His favor, and did not the LORD relent of the disaster He had pronounced against them? But we are about to bring great harm on ourselves!”
- Amos 7:3So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen,” He said.
- Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
- Judg 10:16So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
- Jonah 3:10When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
- Ps 135:14For the LORD will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants.
- Ps 90:13Return, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on Your servants.
- Judg 2:18Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
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Amid judgment on injustice, Amos promises the raising up of David's fallen tent — read by James in Acts 15 as the ingathering of the nations into the kingdom of the risen Christ.
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