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).
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The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.
4
These things the Lord God shewed to me: and behold the Lord called for judgment unto fire, and it devoured the great deep, and ate up a part at the same time.
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And I said: O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee, who shall raise up Jacob, for he is a little one?
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The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not be, said the Lord God.
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These things the Lord shewed to me: and behold the Lord was standing upon a plastered wall, and in his hand a mason’s trowel.