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Israel’s Refusal to Return to God

“I also have scheduled[a] food shortages[b] 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.

“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.
So the people of[c] two or three cities staggered away to another[d] city
    in order to obtain drinking water,
but you have not returned to me,”
    declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:6 Lit. appointed
  2. Amos 4:6 Lit. appointed clean teeth
  3. Amos 4:8 The Heb. lacks the people of
  4. Amos 4:8 Lit. to a single

“I gave you empty stomachs in every city
    and lack of bread in every town,
    yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.(A)

“I also withheld(B) rain from you
    when the harvest was still three months away.
I sent rain on one town,
    but withheld it from another.(C)
One field had rain;
    another had none and dried up.
People staggered from town to town for water(D)
    but did not get enough(E) to drink,
    yet you have not returned(F) to me,”
declares the Lord.(G)

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