Amos 4:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ “Then two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, but they were not satisfied. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares יהוה.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ So [the people of] two or three cities wandered and staggered into one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

⁸ So two or three thirsty towns went to one city to drink water, and weren’t satisfied; yet you didn’t return to me, says the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And two and three cities went to one city, in order to drink water, and they were not satisfied. And you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Amos 4:8 Cross References

1 Kings 18:5

And Aḥ

Isaiah 9:12

the Arameans before and the Philistines behind. And they devour Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 23:14

“And among the prophets of Yerushalayim I have seen a horrible matter: committing adultery and walking in falsehood. And they strengthen the hands of evil ones, so that no one turns back from his evil. All of them are like Seḏ

Jeremiah 3:3

“Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. You have had a whore’s forehead, you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 3:7

“And after she had done all these, I said ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 5:3

O יהוה, are Your eyes not on truth? You have smitten them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces harder than rock, they refused to turn back.

Hosea 11:5

“No, let him return to the land of Mitsrayim, and let Ashshur be his sovereign, because they refused to repent!

Hosea 7:10

“And the Excellency of Yisra’ĕ

Amos 4:6

“And I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares יהוה.

Micah 6:14

“You shall eat but not be satisfied, and your inside be empty. And you shall store up but not save, and what you save I shall give to the sword.

Haggai 1:6

“You have sown much, but brought in little; eat, but do not have enough; drink, but you are not filled with drink; clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages, earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

Haggai 2:17

‘I smote you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labours of your hands, and their was none of you with Me,’ declares יהוה.