Amos 4:6-11 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have you not returned to me… One day, seeing some men in a field, I went up to them, and found they were cutting up the trunk of an old tree. I said, "That is slow work, why not spilt it asunder with the beetle and wedges?" "Ah, this wood is so cross-grained and stubborn that it requires something sharper than wedges to get it to pieces." "Yes," I replied, "and that is the way God is obliged to deal with obstinate, cross-grained sinners; if they will not yield to one of His instruments, you may depend on it He will make use of another." (G. Grigg.) Parallel Verses KJV: 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. |
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