Amos 7:5

5 Then I said, "Stop, O Sovereign Lord! How can your people survive? They are so small and weak!"

Amos 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 7:5

Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee
From destroying the land; suffer not this calamity to proceed any further; using the same argument as before: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small; (See Gill on Amos 7:2).

Amos 7:5 In-Context

3 The Lord changed his mind and said, "What you saw will not take place."

4 I had another vision from the Sovereign Lord. In it I saw him preparing to punish his people with fire. The fire burned up the great ocean under the earth and started to burn up the land.

5 Then I said, "Stop, O Sovereign Lord! How can your people survive? They are so small and weak!"

6 The Lord changed his mind again and said, "This will not take place either."

7 I had another vision from the Lord. In it I saw him standing beside a wall that had been built with the use of a plumb line, and there was a plumb line in his hand.