Amos 7:5
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5 Then I said, “O Sovereign Lord, please stop or we will not survive, for Israel is so small.”
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Psalm 85:4
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4 Now restore us again, O God of our salvation.
Put aside your anger against us once more.
Amos 7:2-3
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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[a] is so small.”
3 So the Lord relented from this plan. “I will not do it,” he said.
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Joel 2:17
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17 Let the priests, who minister in the Lord’s presence,
stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the altar.
Let them pray, “Spare your people, Lord!
Don’t let your special possession become an object of mockery.
Don’t let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who say,
‘Has the God of Israel left them?’”
Jeremiah 30:19
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19 There will be joy and songs of thanksgiving,
and I will multiply my people, not diminish them;
I will honor them, not despise them.
Isaiah 10:25
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25 In a little while my anger against you will end, and then my anger will rise up to destroy them.”
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Isaiah 1:9
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9 If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
had not spared a few of us,[a]
we would have been wiped out like Sodom,
destroyed like Gomorrah.
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