Amos 4:6-8

Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

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

7 "I also v withheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
w I would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
 8 so two or three cities x would wander to another city
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
u yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:57
    Her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
    Lamentations 2:12
    They cry to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?" as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers' bosom.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 15:7
    I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.
    Haggai 2:17
    I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
  3. Cross References
    Jeremiah 3:3
    Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.
    Joel 2:23
    Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.
  4. Cross References
    Exodus 9:26
    Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.
  5. Cross References
    Amos 8:12
    They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord, but they shall not find it.
  6. Cross References
    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," declares the Lord.
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