Amos 4:9

I smote you with parching, and with blight: ye multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your oliveyards: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

In Context

8And the inhabitants of two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied: yet ye have not returned to me, saith the Lord.

10I sent pestilence among you by the way of Egypt, and slew your young men with the sword, together with thy horses that were taken captive; and in my wrath against you I set fire to your camps: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:22The Lord smite thee with distress, and fever, and cold, and inflammation, and blighting, and paleness, and they shall pursue thee until they have destroyed thee.

1 Kings 8:37If there should be famine, if there should be death, because there should be blasting, locust, or if there be mildew, and if + 8:37 Gr. his.their enemy oppress them in any one of their cities, with regard to every + 8:37 Gr. incident or occurrence.calamity, every trouble,

Job 36:8But they that are bound in fetters shall be holden in cords of poverty.

Isaiah 9:12But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:10And for all these things faithless Juda turned not to me with all her heart, but falsely.

Hosea 11:5Ephraim dwelt in Egypt; and as for the Assyrian, he was his king, because he would not return.

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 →

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