Then the Lord relented from this plan, too. “I will not do that either,” said the Sovereign Lord.
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.
- 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.
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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.
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Cross-references · 8
- Jer 26:19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? Didn’t he fear Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster which he had pronounced against them? We would commit great evil against our own souls that way!”
- Amos 7:3Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh.
- Jonah 4:2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
- Judg 10:16They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- Jonah 3:10God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.
- Ps 135:14For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.
- Ps 90:13Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!
- Judg 2:18When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled 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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