Amos 4:9

Good News Translation

“I sent a scorching wind to dry up your crops. The locusts ate up all your gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:37

“When there is famine in the land or an epidemic or the crops are destroyed by scorching winds or swarms of locusts, or when your people are attacked by their enemies, or when there is disease or sickness among them,

2 Chronicles 6:28

“When there is famine in the land or an epidemic or the crops are destroyed by scorching winds or swarms of locusts, or when your people are attacked by their enemies, or when there is disease or sickness among them,

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you keep on rebelling? Do you want to be punished even more? Israel, your head is already covered with wounds, and your heart and mind are sick.

Isaiah 50:11

All of you that plot to destroy others will be destroyed by your own plots. The Lord himself will make this happen; you will suffer a miserable fate.

Isaiah 9:12

Syria on the east and Philistia on the west have opened their mouths to devour Israel. Yet even so the Lord's anger is not ended; his hand is still stretched out to punish.

Jeremiah 3:10

And after all this, Judah, Israel's unfaithful sister, only pretended to return to me; she was not sincere. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 5:3

Surely the Lord looks for faithfulness. He struck you, but you paid no attention; he crushed you, but you refused to learn. You were stubborn and would not turn from your sins.

Hosea 11:5

“They refuse to return to me, and so they must return to Egypt, and Assyria will rule them.

Joel 1:4

Swarm after swarm of locusts settled on the crops; what one swarm left, the next swarm devoured.

Joel 1:7

They have destroyed our grapevines and chewed up our fig trees. They have stripped off the bark, till the branches are white.

Joel 2:25

I will give you back what you lost in the years when swarms of locusts ate your crops. It was I who sent this army against you.

Amos 4:6

“I was the one who brought famine to all your cities, yet you did not come back to me.

Amos 4:8

Weak with thirst, the people of several cities went to a city where they hoped to find water, but there was not enough to drink. Still you did not come back to me.

Habakkuk 3:17

Even though the fig trees have no fruit and no grapes grow on the vines, even though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no grain, even though the sheep all die and the cattle stalls are empty,

Haggai 2:17

I sent scorching winds and hail to ruin everything you tried to grow, but still you did not repent.

Malachi 3:11

I will not let insects destroy your crops, and your grapevines will be loaded with grapes.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will strike you with infectious diseases, with swelling and fever; he will send drought and scorching winds to destroy your crops. These disasters will be with you until you die.

Deuteronomy 28:42

All your trees and crops will be devoured by insects.