Amos 4:6–12

⁶“I 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.

⁷“And I also withheld the rain from you

when there were yet three months to the harvest;

I would send rain upon one city,

and send no rain upon another city;

one field would be rained upon,

and the field on which it did not rain withered;

⁸so two or three cities wandered to one city

to drink water, and were not satisfied;

yet you did not return to me,”

says the Lord.

⁹“I smote you with blight and mildew;

I laid wasteⁱ

your gardens and your vineyards; your fig

trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;

yet you did not return to me,”

says the Lord.

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

I slew your young men with the sword;

I carried away your horses;^j

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

yet you did not return to me,”

says the Lord.

¹¹“I overthrew some of you,

as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning;

yet you did not return to me,”

says the Lord.

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

because I will do this to you,

prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”