King James Version (KJV)
Amos 7:3
“The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.”
Verse in context — Amos 7
1
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, [it was] the latter growth after the king's mowings.
2
And it came to pass, [that] when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.
3
The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
4
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
5
Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he [is] small.