World English Bible
Amos 7:6
“Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.”
Verse in context — Amos 7
4
Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
5
Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.
6
Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.
7
Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
8
Yahweh said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said, "Behold, I will set a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.