Amos 4:11

I overthrew cities among you, 1 as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 1 You were like a burning stick snatched out of the fire. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

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I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

In Context

10I sent a plague on you as on Egypt. 1 I killed your young men with the sword, 1 carried away your horses, 1 and made the stench of your camp come up 1 to your nostrils. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

12Therefore I will do something terrible to you, Israel; 1 and because I will do something terrible to you, 1 prepare to meet your God, Israel! 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:24Yahweh will make the rain of your land into powder and dust; from the heavens will it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

Isaiah 13:19Then Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the splendor of Chaldean pride, 1 will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. 1

Jeremiah 6:28They are all the most stubborn of people, who go about slandering others. 1 All of them are bronze and iron, acting corruptly. 1

Jeremiah 49:18Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors,” says Yahweh, 1 “no one will live there; no person will stay there. 1

Ezekiel 22:17Next the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Hosea 11:5Will they not return to the land of Egypt? 1 Will Assyria not rule over them 1 because they refuse to return to me? 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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