Bible in Basic English
"The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be."
— Amos 7:6, Bible in Basic English
“The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.”
“Jehovah repented concerning this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord Jehovah. ”
“Yahweh relented concerning this. "This also shall not be," says the Lord Yahweh.”
“The LORD decided not to do this. The Sovereign LORD said,“This will not happen either.””
“The Lord had pity upon this. Yea this also shall not be, said the Lord God.”
“The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.”
The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, It will not be.
This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.
Then said I, O Lord God, let there be an end: how will Jacob be able to keep his place? for he is small.
The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be.
This is what he let me see: and I saw the Lord stationed by a wall made straight by a weighted line, and he had a weighted line in his hand.
And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:
And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against the family of Jeroboam with the sword.