Amos 4:7-9

Israel Has Not Returned to 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.

9 y "I struck you with blight and mildew;
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees z the locust devoured;
u yet you did not return to me,"
declares the Lord.

  1. 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.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 9:26
    Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:22
    The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish.
    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.
  6. Cross References
    Joel 1:4
    What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
  7. 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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