Then said I, O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
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Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee,.... From destroying the land; suffer not this calamity to proceed any further; using the same argument as before:
by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is…
As our Lord repeated the same words in the Garden, so Amos interceded with God with words, all but one, the same, and with the same plea, that, if God did not help, Israel was indeed helpless. Yet a…
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