Amos 4:9

I have struck you with blight and mildew; 1 when your ganim (gardens) and your kramim (vineyards) 1 and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, 1 the locust devoured them; 1 yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith Hashem. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

8So two or three towns wandered unto one town, 1 to drink mayim, but they were not satisfied; 1 yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith Hashem. 1

10I have sent among you the dever after the manner of Mitzrayim; 1 your bocherim have I slain with the cherev, 1 and have taken away your susim; 1 and I have made the stench 1 of your machanot to come up unto your nostrils; 1 yet have ye not returned unto Me, saith Hashem. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:22Hashem shall strike thee with a shachefet (consumption), and with a kaddachat + 28:22 Mk 1:31 (fever), and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the cherev, and with scorching, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

1 Kings 8:37If there be in HaAretz ra'av, if there be dever, blight, mildew, arbeh, or if there be grasshopper; if their oyev besiege them in the eretz of their she'arim; whatsoever nega (plague), whatsoever machalah (disease) there be;

Job 36:8And if they be bound in chains, 1 and be held fast in chevlei oni (cords of affliction), 1

Isaiah 9:12For HaAm turneth not unto Him that struck them, 1 neither do they seek Hashem Tzva'os. 1

Jeremiah 3:10And yet for all this her treacherous achot Yehudah hath not returned unto Me with her kol lev, but in sheker (falsity, pretense, an insincere religious spirit), saith Hashem.

Hosea 11:5Will they not return into Eretz Mitzrayim? 1 And will not the Assyrian be his melech, 1 because they refused to make teshuvah. 1

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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