“Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.”
Amos 7:5 (WEB)
Context Reading
3Yahweh relented concerning this. “It shall not be,” says Yahweh. 4Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land. 5Then I said, “Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small.” 6Yahweh relented concerning this. “This also shall not be,” says the Lord Yahweh. 7Thus he showed me: behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.