Amos 4:6

Translations

Modern

“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Traditional

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.

Literal

“Also I have given to you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your stations, and you have not returned to Me,” a declaration of YHWH.

Latin

Unde et ego dedi vobis stuporem dentium in cunctis urbibus vestris, et indigentiam panum in omnibus locis vestris; et non estis reversi ad me, dicit Dominus.

Original

Hebrew

English

“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Notes

Amos 4:6–11

God sent natural disasters to encourage his people to repent, but they did not respond sincerely. Amos ends each disaster account with the phrase: “yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Amos 3:1–5:17

Amos delivers three prophetic messages to Israel, criticizing their mistaken belief about being God's chosen people. The messages show a progression toward judgment.

Theme notes and profiles

Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility Spiritual Renewal in the Later Prophets

Events

Prophecies of Amosc. 788 BC

Related verses

Haggai 2:17
I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Isaiah 9:13
But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
Revelation 16:10–11
And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish
Hosea 5:15–6:1
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Revelation 2:21
Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
Leviticus 26:26
When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
2 Chronicles 28:22
In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
Isaiah 3:1
For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,
2 Kings 4:38
When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
Hosea 7:14–16
They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
Deuteronomy 28:38
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

Glossary

Book of Amos Education Food and Food Preparation

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Impenitence is a Cause of Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Afflictions and Adversities: Obduracy In Cities were Frequently: Wasted by Famine Famine: Expressed by Cleanness of Teeth Famine: Sent As a Judgment The Afflictions of the Wicked: Impenitence is a Cause of

Amos 4:6

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