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The Lord relented concerning this;
    ‘It shall not be,’ said the Lord.

This is what the Lord God showed me: the Lord God was calling for a shower of fire,[a] and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. Then I said,

‘O Lord God, cease, I beg you!
    How can Jacob stand?
    He is so small!’

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 7:4 Or for a judgement by fire

So the Lord relented.(A)

“This will not happen,” the Lord said.(B)

This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: The Sovereign Lord was calling for judgment by fire;(C) it dried up the great deep and devoured(D) the land. Then I cried out, “Sovereign Lord, I beg you, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!(E)

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