Amos 4:7

Repentance

⁵ Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.

⁶ “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.

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

⁸ People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

⁹ “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares 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 also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
KJV: 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.
WEB: “I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered.
ASV: And I also 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.
DARBY: And I also 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 [of land] was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
BLB: “Also I have withheld from you⁺ the rain while still [were] three months until the harvest. And I made it rain on one city, and on one city I did not send rain; the one portion was rained [on], and the portion where it did not rain upon it withered.

ÅB: Jeg har forholdt dere regnet da det enda var tre måneder igjen til høsten, og har latt det regne over en by, men ikke over en annen; et stykke land fikk regn, og et annet stykke ble fortørket, fordi det ikke kom regn på det,
OTB: “Videre holdt jeg regnet tilbake fra dere
Selv om det fortsatt var tre måneder til innhøstning.
Jeg ville sende regn på en by,
Mens en annen by ikke ville få regn;
En del ville bli vannet,
Mens delen uten regn ville tørke opp.
B1930: Jeg har forholdt eder regnet da det ennu var tre måneder igjen til høsten, og har latt det regne over en by, men ikke over en annen; et stykke land fikk regn, og et annet stykke blev fortørket, fordi det ikke kom regn på det,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 9:26
The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.
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Jeremiah 3:3
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.
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Isaiah 5:6
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
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2 Chronicles 7:13–14
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,
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Exodus 9:4
But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’”
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Exodus 10:23
No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.
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Leviticus 26:18–21
And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.
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Leviticus 26:23–24
And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,
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