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Amos 4:9

New American Bible - revised edition

I struck you with blight and mildew; locusts devoured your gardens and vineyards, the caterpillar consumed your fig trees and olive trees; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

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“If there is famine in the land or pestilence; or if blight comes, or mildew, or locusts, or caterpillars; if an enemy of your people presses upon them in the land and at their gates; whatever plague or sickness there may be;

“If there is famine in the land or pestilence; or if blight comes, or mildew, or locusts swarm, or caterpillars; when their enemies besiege them at any of their gates; whatever plague or sickness there may be;

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

All you who kindle flames and set flares alight, Walk by the light of your own fire and by the flares you have burnt! This is your fate from my hand: you shall lie down in a place of torment.

The people do not turn back to the one who struck them, nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

In spite of all this, Judah, the traitor, her sister, did not return to me wholeheartedly, but insincerely—oracle of the Lord. Restoration of Israel.

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

He shall return to the land of Egypt, Assyria shall be his king, because they have refused to repent.

What the cutter left, the swarming locust has devoured; What the swarming locust left, the hopper has devoured; What the hopper left, the consuming locust has devoured.

It has stripped bare my vines, splintered my fig tree, Shearing off its bark and throwing it away, until its branches turn white.

I will repay you double what the swarming locust has eaten, The hopper, the consuming locust, and the cutter, my great army I sent against you.

Though I made your teeth clean of food in all your cities, and made bread scarce in all your dwellings, Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Two or three cities staggered to another to drink water but were not satisfied; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

For though the fig tree does not blossom, and no fruit appears on the vine, Though the yield of the olive fails and the terraces produce no nourishment, Though the flocks disappear from the fold and there is no herd in the stalls,

I struck you, and all the work of your hands, with searing wind, blight, and hail, yet you did not return to me—oracle of the Lord.

I will rebuke the locust for you so that it will not destroy your crops, And the vine in the field will not be barren, says the Lord of hosts.

The Lord will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, with blight and mildew, that will pursue you until you perish.

Buzzing insects will take possession of all your trees and the crops of your soil.




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