Amos 7:5

5 Then I said, "[O] Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob stand, because he [is] small?"

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 Yahweh relented concerning this. "It will not be," said Yahweh.

4 This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, my Lord Yahweh was going to call for a legal case with fire, and it devoured the great deep and it ate up the plots of ground.

5 Then I said, "[O] Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob stand, because he [is] small?"

6 Yahweh also relented concerning this. "This also will not be," said my Lord Yahweh.

7 This is what he showed me: Behold, my Lord [was] standing beside a wall [built with] a plummet, and a plummet [was] in his hand.