Amos 4:6-11 ▼

6 |I also have scheduled food shortages for you in all of your cities, and lack of bread in all of your settlements, but you haven't returned to me,| declares the LORD.

7 |I therefore have withheld the rain from you three months before the harvest, causing rain to come upon one city, but not upon another, and upon one field but not upon another, so that it would wither.

8 So the people of two or three cities staggered away to another city in order to obtain drinking water, but you have not returned to me,| declares the LORD.

9 |I afflicted you with blight and fungus; and the locust swarm devoured the harvest of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees, but you have not returned to me,| declares the LORD.

10 |I sent plagues among you as I did with Egypt. I killed your choicest young men with the sword. I took your horses away from you. I filled your noses with the stench of your encampments, but you have not returned to me,| declares the LORD.

11 |I overthrew your cities, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You've become like a burning ember, snatched from the fire, but you have not returned to me,| declares the LORD.