Amos 4:8

Modern English Version

So two or three towns wandered to one town to drink water, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:5

And Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land, to all the springs of water and to all the brooks. Perhaps we will find grass to save the horses and mules, so that we do not lose all the beasts.”

Isaiah 9:12

The Arameans shall be before and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open jaws. For all this His anger is not turned away, and His hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 23:14

I have seen also among the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing. They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one repents from his wickedness. All of them are as Sodom to Me and her inhabitants as Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. And you had a harlot’s forehead; you refused to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 3:7

I said after she had done all these things, “Turn to Me.” But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 5:3

O  Lord, are not Your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Hosea 11:5

He will return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria will be his king, because they refused to return to Me.

Hosea 7:10

The pride of Israel testifies against him, but they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek Him for all this.

Amos 4:6

Though I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of food in all your places, yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.

Micah 6:14

You will eat, but not be satisfied, with hunger within you. You will set aside, but not retain; and what you retain I will give over to the sword.

Haggai 1:6

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

Haggai 2:17

I struck you and all the labor of your hands with blight and mildew and hail; yet you did not turn to Me.