Amos 4:7

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Three months before harvest, I kept back the rain. Sometimes I would let it fall on one town or field but not on another, and pastures dried up.

Cross References

Exodus 10:22

Moses stretched his arm towards the sky, and Egypt was covered with darkness for three days.

Exodus 10:23

During that time, the Egyptians could not see each other or leave their homes, but there was light where the Israelites lived.

Exodus 8:22

“The LORD's people in Goshen won't be bothered by flies, but your people in the rest of the country will be tormented by them. That's how you will know that the LORD is here in Egypt. This miracle will happen tomorrow.”

Exodus 9:26

Only Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was safe from the storm.

Exodus 9:4

But the LORD will protect the animals that belong to the people of Israel, and none of theirs will die.

Isaiah 5:6

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor hoed; it will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

Jeremiah 14:22

Idols can't send rain, and showers don't fall by themselves. Only you control the rain, so we put our trust in you, the LORD our God.

Jeremiah 14:3

Rulers send their servants to the storage pits for water. But there's none to be found; they return in despair with their jars still empty.

Jeremiah 14:4

There has been no rain, and farmers feel sick as they watch cracks appear in the dry ground.

Jeremiah 3:3

So I, the LORD, refused to let the spring rains fall. But just like a prostitute, you still have no shame for what you have done.

Joel 2:23

People of Zion, celebrate in honour of the LORD your God! He is generous and has sent the autumn and spring rains in the proper seasons.

Zechariah 14:17

No rain will fall on the land of anyone in any country who refuses to go to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD All-Powerful.

John 4:35

You may say that there are still four months until harvest time. But I tell you to look, and you will see that the fields are ripe and ready to harvest.

1 Corinthians 4:7

What is so special about you? What do you have that you were not given? And if it was given to you, how can you boast?

Deuteronomy 11:17

the LORD will become angry and keep the rain from falling. Nothing will grow in your fields, and you will die and disappear from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

James 5:17

Elijah was just as human as we are, and for three and a half years his prayers kept the rain from falling.

Revelation 11:6

They have the power to lock up the sky and to keep rain from falling while they are prophesying. And whenever they want to, they can turn water to blood and cause all kinds of terrible troubles on earth.