Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

Amos 4

⁶ I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and lack of bread in all your places,
yet you did not return to me,
+qsays the Lord.

⁷ And I also withheld the rain from you
when there were still three months to the harvest;
I would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would be rained upon,
and the field on which it did not rain withered;
⁸ so two or three towns wandered to one town
to drink water, and were not satisfied;
yet you did not return to me,
+qsays the Lord.

⁹ I struck you with blight and mildew;
I laid waste ₁ your gardens and your vineyards;
the locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;
yet you did not return to me,
+qsays the Lord.

¹⁰ I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword;
I carried away your horses; ₂
and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
yet you did not return to me,
+qsays the Lord.

¹¹ I overthrew some of you,
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were like a brand snatched from the fire;
yet you did not return to me,
+qsays the Lord.

¹² Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
because I will do this to you,
prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

¹³ For lo, the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind,
reveals his thoughts to mortals,
makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth--
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!