Amos 4:11
Some of you I destroyed as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick pulled out of a fire. But still you did not return to me, declares the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 28:24The Lord will change the rain of your land into dust and sand; it will fall from the sky on you until you're destroyed.
Isaiah 13:19Babylon, the most marvelous city of any kingdom, the greatest pride of the Babylonian people, will be demolished by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
Jeremiah 6:28They're all stubborn rebels going around talking slander. They are hard as bronze and iron; they are all corrupt.
Jeremiah 49:18Just as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, along with their neighboring towns, says the Lord, nobody will live there—they will become uninhabited.
Ezekiel 22:17A message from the Lord came to me, saying,
Hosea 11:5However, because my people refuse to return to me, they will not return to the land of Egypt but Assyria shall be their king.
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 →