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how will Jacob stand? For he is so small.

Here "Jacob" represents his descendants the Israelites. See how you translated this in Amos 7:2. The word "stand" is a metonym for surviving. Alternate translation: "how will the Israelites survive? We are so small and weak!" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)