Amos 4:6–11

Israel Did Not Accept Correction

⁶“Also I gave you ⁴cleanness of teeth in all your cities.

And lack of bread in all your places;

^mYet you have not returned to Me,”

Says the Lord.

⁷“I also withheld rain from you,

When there were still three months to the harvest.

I made it rain on one city,

I withheld rain from another city.

One part was rained upon,

And where it did not rain the part withered.

⁸So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,

But they were not satisfied;

Yet you have not returned to Me,”

Says the Lord.

⁹“I ⁿblasted you with blight and mildew.

When your gardens increased,

Your vineyards,

Your fig trees,

And your olive trees,

^oThe locust devoured them;

Yet you have not returned to Me,”

Says the Lord.

¹⁰“I sent among you a plague ^pafter the manner of Egypt;

Your young men I killed with a sword,

Along with your captive horses;

I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;

Yet you have not returned to Me,”

Says the Lord.

¹¹“I overthrew some of you,

As God overthrew ^qSodom and Gomorrah,

And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning;

Yet you have not returned to Me,”

Says the Lord.