Amos 4:7

New Living Translation

“I kept the rain from falling when your crops needed it the most. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.

Cross References

Exodus 10:22

So Moses lifted his hand to the sky, and a deep darkness covered the entire land of Egypt for three days.

Exodus 10:23

During all that time the people could not see each other, and no one moved. But there was light as usual where the people of Israel lived.

Exodus 8:22

But this time I will spare the region of Goshen, where my people live. No flies will be found there. Then you will know that I am the Lord and that I am present even in the heart of your land.

Exodus 9:26

The only place without hail was the region of Goshen, where the people of Israel lived.

Exodus 9:4

But the Lord will again make a distinction between the livestock of the Israelites and that of the Egyptians. Not a single one of Israel’s animals will die!

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, you are the one, O Lord our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.

Jeremiah 14:3

The nobles send servants to get water, but all the wells are dry. The servants return with empty pitchers, confused and desperate, covering their heads in grief.

Jeremiah 14:4

The ground is parched and cracked for lack of rain. The farmers are deeply troubled; they, too, cover their heads.

Jeremiah 3:3

That’s why even the spring rains have failed. For you are a brazen prostitute and completely shameless.

Joel 2:23

Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem! Rejoice in the Lord your God! For the rain he sends demonstrates his faithfulness. Once more the autumn rains will come, as well as the rains of spring.

Zechariah 14:17

Any nation in the world that refuses to come to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will have no rain.

John 4:35

You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest.’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For what gives you the right to make such a judgment? What do you have that God hasn’t given you? And if everything you have is from God, why boast as though it were not a gift?

Deuteronomy 11:17

If you do, the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. Then you will quickly die in that good land the Lord is giving you.

James 5:17

Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years!

Revelation 11:6

They have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall for as long as they prophesy. And they have the power to turn the rivers and oceans into blood, and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.