Amos 4:6-11

English Standard Version

Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

⁶“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and ^(A)lack of bread in all your places,
^(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

⁷“I also ^(C)withheld the rain from you
    when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^(D)I would send rain on one city,
    and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
    and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
⁸so two or three cities ^(E)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^(F)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

⁹^(G)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees ^(H)the locust devoured;
^(I)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹⁰“I sent among you a pestilence ^(J)after the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword,
and ^(K)carried away your horses,^[a]
and ^(L)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
^(M)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

¹¹“I overthrew some of you,
^(N)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were ^(O)as a brand^[b] plucked out of the burning;
^(P)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.