Amos 4:9

Translations

Modern

“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Traditional

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

Literal

“I struck you with blight and with mildew in your growing your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees. The locust devoured and you have not returned to Me,” a declaration of YHWH.

Latin

Percussi vos in vento urente, et in aurugine: multitudinem hortorum vestrorum et vinearum vestrarum, oliveta vestra et ficeta vestra comedit eruca: et non redistis ad me, dicit Dominus.

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English

“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, 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 Amos

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.
Deuteronomy 28:22
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
Joel 1:4
What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
Amos 4:6
“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.
Amos 7:1–2
This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
Job 36:8–13
And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
Joel 1:7
It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.
Isaiah 42:24–25
Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
Isaiah 1:5
Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
Jeremiah 3:10
Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
Joel 2:25
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
Deuteronomy 28:42
Swarms of locusts will consume all your trees and the produce of your land.

Glossary

Book of Amos Education Famine Food and Food Preparation Palmerworm

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities of the Wicked: Impenitence is a Cause of Afflictions and Adversities: Obduracy In Blasting: Sent As a Judgment Famine: Caused by Blasting and Mildew Famine: Sent As a Judgment Gardens: Blasting of, a Punishment Insects: Palmer-Worm Judgments: Different Kinds of Famine Mildew: General Scriptures Concerning Palmer-Worm: General Scriptures Concerning The Afflictions of the Wicked: Impenitence is a Cause of The Fig-Tree: Propagated by the Jews The Fig-Tree: The Jews Punished by Barking and Eating of, by Locusts The Olive-Tree: Often Suffered from Caterpillars Vineyards: The Whole Produce of, often Destroyed by Insects

Amos 4:9

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