The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- BSB So the LORD relented from this plan. “It will not happen either,” said 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 and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
- Amos 7:3The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
- Jonah 4:2And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
- Judg 10:16And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- Jonah 3:10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
- Ps 135:14For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
- Ps 90:13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
- Judg 2:18And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed 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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