Amos 7:3-5

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³The Lord repented concerning this;

“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

⁴Thus the Lord God showed me: behold, the Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire, and it devoured the great deep and was eating up the land. ⁵Then I said,

“O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee!
How can Jacob stand?
He is so small!”

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