Amos 4:6–12

Israel Rejects Correction

⁶I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities

and lack of bread in all your places;

yet you did not return to me,

says the Lord.^*

⁷And I also withheld the rain from you

when there were still three months to the harvest;

I would send rain on one city

and send no rain on another city;

one field would be rained upon,

and the field on which it did not rain withered;

⁸so two or three towns wandered to one town

to drink water and were not satisfied;

yet you did not return to me,

says the Lord.^*

⁹I struck you with blight and mildew;

I laid waste^q your gardens and your vineyards;

the locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees;

yet you did not return to me,

says the Lord.^*

¹⁰I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;

I killed your young men with the sword;

I carried away your horses;^r

and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;

yet you did not return to me,

says the Lord.^*

¹¹I overthrew some of you

as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and you were like a brand snatched from the fire;

yet you did not return to me,

says the Lord.^*

¹²Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;

because I will do this to you,

prepare to meet your God, O Israel!^*