6The LORD repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD.
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The LORD repented for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD.
And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
For the LORD will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)We here see that God bears long, but that he will not bear always, with a provoking people, both these God here showed the prophet: Thus hath the Lord God showed me , Amos 7:1 , 4 , 7 . He showed him what was present, foreshowed him what was to come, gave him the knowledge both of what he did and of what he designed; for the Lord God reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets , Amos 3:7. I.…
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