Amos 4:6–11

⁶I left you with nothing to eat in any of your cities. 

I left you with no food in your entire land. 

And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord. 

⁷I stopped the rain from falling 

three months before the harvest. 

I sent rain on one city and not on another. 

One field had rain. 

Another field had none and dried up. 

⁸So people from two or three cities staggered 

as they walked to another city in order to get a drink of water. 

But they couldn’t get enough. 

And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord. 

⁹I struck your ⸤crops⸥ with blight and mildew. 

Locusts repeatedly devoured your gardens, vineyards, 

fig trees, and olive trees. 

And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord. 

¹⁰I sent plagues on you as I did to Egypt. 

With swords I killed your best young men along with your captured horses. 

I made the stench from your camps fill your noses. 

And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord. 

¹¹I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. 

You were like a burning log snatched from a fire. 

And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.