Amos 4:9-5:4

Revised Standard Version

⁹ “I smote you with blight and mildew;
    I laid waste^[a] your gardens and your vineyards;
    your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured;
yet you did not return to me,”
                says the Lord.

¹⁰ “I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;
    I slew your young men with the sword;
I carried away your horses;^[b]
    and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
yet you did not return to me,”
                says the Lord.

¹¹ “I overthrew some of you,
    as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomor′rah,
    and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning;
yet you did not return to me,”
                says the Lord.

¹² “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;
    because I will do this to you,
    prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

¹³ For lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind,
    and declares to man what is his thought;
who makes the morning darkness,
    and treads on the heights of the earth—
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

³ For thus says the Lord God:
“The city that went forth a thousand
    shall have a hundred left,
and that which went forth a hundred
    shall have ten left
    to the house of Israel.”

⁴ For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
“Seek me and live;