Amos 4:7
I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon: and the piece whereupon I rained not, withered.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Exodus 8:22And I will make the land of Gessen wherein my people is, wonderful in that lay, so that flies shall not be there: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.
Exodus 9:26Only in the land of Gessen, where the children of Israel were, the hail fell not.
Leviticus 26:18But if you will not yet for all this obey me: I will chastise you seven times more for your sins,
Leviticus 26:27But if you will not for all this hearken to me, but will walk against me:
Deuteronomy 28:23Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron.
1 Kings 8:35If heaven shall be shut up, and there shall be no rain, because of their sins, and they praying in this place, shall do penance to thy name, and shall be converted from their sins, by occasion of their afflictions:
Matthew Henry on Amos 4:7-13
Incorrigibleness of Israel; Judgments Called to Remembrance; Greater Judgments Threatened. ( b. c. 790.) 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord . 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8… Read the whole commentary →