Amos 4:9

Contemporary English Version 1995

I dried up your grain fields; your gardens and vineyards turned brown. Locusts ate your fig trees and olive orchards, but even then you rejected me. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Cross References

Haggai 2:17

I made all of your hard work useless by sending mildew, mold, and hail—but you still did not return to me, your Lord.

Joel 1:4

Swarm after swarm of locusts has attacked our crops, eating everything in sight.

Amos 4:6

I, the Lord, took away the food from every town and village, but still you rejected me.

Amos 4:8

People from two or three towns would go to a town that still had water, but it wasn't enough. Even then you rejected me. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Joel 2:25

I, the Lord your God, will make up for the losses caused by those swarms and swarms of locusts I sent to attack you.

Joel 1:7

Our grapevines and fig trees are stripped bare; only naked branches remain.

Jeremiah 5:3

I answered, “I know that you look for truth. You punished your people for their lies, but in spite of the pain, they became more stubborn and refused to turn back to you.”

Jeremiah 3:10

And worst of all, the people of Judah pretended to come back to me.

Isaiah 1:5

Why be punished more? Why not give up your sin? Your head is badly bruised, and you are weak all over.

2 Chronicles 6:28

Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly diseases.

1 Kings 8:37

Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly diseases.

Deuteronomy 28:42

Locusts will eat your crops and strip your trees of leaves and fruit.

Isaiah 50:11

Go ahead and walk in the light of the fires you have set. But with his own hand, the Lord will punish you and make you suffer.

Habakkuk 3:17

Fig trees may no longer bloom, or vineyards produce grapes; olive trees may be fruitless, and harvest time a failure; sheep pens may be empty, and cattle stalls vacant—

Isaiah 9:12

He sent the Arameans from the east and the Philistines from the west, and they swallowed up Israel. But even this did not stop him from being angry, so he kept on punishing them.

Hosea 11:5

But they rejected me, and so must return to Egypt; now Assyria will rule them.

Malachi 3:11

I will also stop locusts from destroying your crops and keeping your vineyards from producing.