Amos 4:6

Repentance

⁴ Come to Beth-el, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years:

⁵ And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

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.

⁷ And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

⁸ So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: “I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
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.
WEB: “I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD.
ASV: 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 Jehovah.
DARBY: And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet ye have not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
BLB: “Also I have given to you⁺ cleanness of teeth in all your⁺ cities, and lack of bread in all your⁺ stations, and you⁺ have not returned to Me,” a declaration of YHWH.

ÅB: Og jeg har da latt dere gå med tom munn i alle deres byer og latt dere mangle brød i alle deres hjem; men dere har ikke omvendt dere til meg, sier Herren.
OTB: “Men jeg ga dere også tomme mager i alle deres byer,
Og mangel på brød i alle deres steder,
Men dere har ikke vendt tilbake til Meg,” sier Herren.
B1930: Og jeg har da latt eder gå med tom munn i alle eders byer og latt eder mangle brød i alle eders hjem; men I har ikke omvendt eder til mig, sier Herren.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Haggai 2:17
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
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Isaiah 9:13
For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.
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Revelation 16:10–11
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,
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Leviticus 26:26
And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
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Hosea 5:15–6:1
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
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Revelation 2:21
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
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Amos 4:8–9
So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
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