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New Living Translation

Amos 7:3

So the Lord relented from this plan. "I will not do it," he said.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   God Continued...;   Intercession;   Repentance;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Visions;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Forgiveness;   Grief, Grieving;   Spirituality;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Joel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Repentance of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Amos;   Prayer;   Vision;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Unchangeable;   Writing;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord relented concerning this. “It will not happen,” he said.
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
The Lord repented for this. It shall not be, saith the Lord.
King James Version
The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord .
English Standard Version
The Lord relented concerning this: "It shall not be," said the Lord .
New American Standard Bible
The LORD relented of this. "It shall not be," said the LORD.
New Century Version
So the Lord changed his mind about this. "It will not happen," said the Lord .
Amplified Bible
The LORD revoked this sentence. "It shall not take place," said the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the Lord repented for this. It shal not be, saith the Lord.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD changed His mind about this. "It shall not be," said the LORD.
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh relented concerning this."It shall not be," said Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
So the LORD relented from this plan. "It will not happen," He said.
Contemporary English Version
Then the Lord felt sorry and answered, "I won't let it be destroyed."
Complete Jewish Bible
So Adonai changed his mind about this. "It won't happen," Adonai said.
Darby Translation
Jehovah repented for this: It shall not be, said Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord changed his mind about this. The Lord said, "It will not happen."
George Lamsa Translation
Then the LORD averted this calamity: it shall not be.
Good News Translation
The Lord changed his mind and said, "What you saw will not take place."
Lexham English Bible
Yahweh relented concerning this. "It will not be," said Yahweh.
Literal Translation
Jehovah repented concerning this: It shall not be, says Jehovah.
American Standard Version
Jehovah repented concerning this: It shall not be, saith Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The LORD repented concerning this; 'It shall not be', saith the LORD.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
So the Lorde repented for this: it shall not be, sayth the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Repent, O Lord, for this. And this shall not be, saith the Lord.
English Revised Version
The LORD repented concerning this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
World English Bible
Yahweh relented concerning this. "It shall not be," says Yahweh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord hadde merci on this thing; It schal not be, seide the Lord God.
Update Bible Version
Yahweh repented concerning this: It shall not be, says Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
New English Translation
The Lord decided not to do this. "It will not happen," the Lord said.
New King James Version
So the LORD relented concerning this. "It shall not be," said the LORD.
New Life Bible
So the Lord changed His mind about this. "It will not be," said the Lord.
New Revised Standard
The Lord relented concerning this; "It shall not be," said the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Grieved was Yahweh, over this, - It shall not be, said Yahweh?
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord had pity upon this: It shall not be, said the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
The LORD repented concerning this; "It shall not be," said the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah hath repented of this, `It shall not be,' said Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So the LORDE was gracious therin, and the LORDE sayde: well, it shall not be.
THE MESSAGE
God gave in. "It won't happen," he said.

Contextual Overview

1 The Sovereign Lord showed me a vision. I saw him preparing to send a vast swarm of locusts over the land. This was after the king's share had been harvested from the fields and as the main crop was coming up. 2 In my vision the locusts ate every green plant in sight. Then I said, "O Sovereign Lord , please forgive us or we will not survive, for Israel is so small." 3 So the Lord relented from this plan. "I will not do it," he said. 4 Then the Sovereign Lord showed me another vision. I saw him preparing to punish his people with a great fire. The fire had burned up the depths of the sea and was devouring the entire land. 5 Then I said, "O Sovereign Lord , please stop or we will not survive, for Israel is so small." 6 Then the Lord relented from this plan, too. "I will not do that either," said the Sovereign Lord . 7 Then he showed me another vision. I saw the Lord standing beside a wall that had been built using a plumb line. He was using a plumb line to see if it was still straight. 8 And the Lord said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I answered, "A plumb line." And the Lord replied, "I will test my people with this plumb line. I will no longer ignore all their sins. 9 The pagan shrines of your ancestors will be ruined, and the temples of Israel will be destroyed; I will bring the dynasty of King Jeroboam to a sudden end."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Amos 7:6, Deuteronomy 32:36, 1 Chronicles 21:15, Psalms 106:45, Hosea 11:8, Joel 2:14, Jonah 3:10, James 5:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:12 - repent Deuteronomy 9:19 - But the 1 Samuel 15:11 - repenteth me 2 Samuel 24:16 - repented Psalms 90:13 - let it Psalms 135:14 - he will repent Jeremiah 15:6 - I am Jeremiah 18:8 - I will Jeremiah 42:10 - for I Amos 7:5 - for Jonah 4:2 - and of

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord repented for this,.... He heard the prayer of the prophet, and at his intercession averted, the threatened judgment; thus the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much, James 5:16; this is spoken after the manner of men; as men, when they repent of a thing, desist from it, so the Lord desisted from going on with this judgment; he did not change his mind, but changed the dispensations of his providence according to his mind and will:

it shall not be, saith the Lord; these grasshoppers or locusts, the Assyrian army, shall not at this time destroy the land of Israel: Pul king of Assyria took a sum of money of the king of Israel, and so turned back, and stayed not in the land, 2 Kings 15:19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Lord repented for this - God is said to “repent, to have strong compassion upon” or “over” evil, which He has either inflicted Deuteronomy 32:36; 1 Chronicles 21:15, or has said that He would inflict Exodus 32:12; Joel 2:13; Jonah 3:10; Jeremiah 18:8, and which, upon repentance or prayer, He suspends or checks. Here, Amos does not intercede until after the judgment had been, in part, inflicted. He prayed, when in vision the locust “had made an end of eating the grass of the land,” and when “the fire had eaten up a part.” Nor, until Israel had suffered what these visions foretold, was he “small,” either in his own or in human sight, or in relation to his general condition. The “this” then, “of which God repented” and said, “it shall not be,” is that further undefined evil, which His first infliction threatened. Evil and decay do not die out, but destroy. Oppression does not weary itself out, but increases. Visitations of God are tokens of His displeasure, and, in the order of His justice, rest on the sinner. Pul and Tiglath-pileser, when they came with their armies on Israel, were instruments of God’s chastening. According to the ways of God’s justice, or of man’s ambition, the evil now begun, would have continued, but that God, at the prayer of the prophet, said, “Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further” Job 38:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 7:3. The Lord repented — Changed his purpose of destroying them by the locusts. See Amos 7:6.


 
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