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Amos 4:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I also withheld the rain from you while there were still three months until harvest. I sent rain on one city but no rain on another. One field received rain while a field with no rain withered.

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This is why the showers haven’t come   – why there has been no spring rain. You have the brazen look  of a prostitute and refuse to be ashamed.


The only place it didn’t hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.


I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briars will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it.


Elijah was a human being as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the land.


Children of Zion,  rejoice and be glad in the Lord your God, because he gives you the autumn rain for your vindication.  , He sends showers for you, both autumn and spring rain  as before.


One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.


But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that the Israelites own will die.’


They have authority to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy.  They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood  and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.


‘Don’t you say, “There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest”? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open   your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready   for harvest.


Should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Armies, rain will not fall on them.


Can any of the worthless idols of the nations  bring rain? Or can the skies alone give showers? Are you not the  Lord our God? We therefore put our hope in you, for you have done all these things.


The ground is cracked since no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.


Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you.  He will shut the sky, and there will be no rain;  the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land  the Lord is giving you.


But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where my people are living;  no flies will be there. This way you will know that I, the Lord, am in the land.


For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you didn’t receive? If, in fact, you did receive it, why do you boast as if you hadn’t received it?


So Moses stretched out his hand towards heaven, and there was thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt for three days.


Their nobles send their servants  for water. They go to the cisterns; they find no water; their containers return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.





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