Verse 5

Then I said, 'Lord God, please stop! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!'

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 85:4 : 4 You have withdrawn all your wrath and turned from your fierce anger.
  • Isa 1:9 : 9 Unless the LORD of hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
  • Isa 10:25 : 25 For in just a little while, my indignation against you will end, and my anger will be directed to their destruction.
  • Jer 30:19 : 19 Out of them will come songs of thanksgiving and the sound of rejoicing. I will increase their numbers, and they will not be decreased; I will honor them, and they will not be despised.
  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'
  • Amos 7:2-3 : 2 When they had finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, 'Lord God, please forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!' 3 So the Lord relented concerning this: 'It will not happen,' said the Lord.