Amos 4:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

so two or three towns wandered to one town to drink water and were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:5

Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis; perhaps we may find grass to keep the horses and mules alive and not lose some of the animals.”

Isaiah 9:12

the Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west, and they devoured Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 23:14

But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a more shocking thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 3:3

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come, yet you have the forehead of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Jeremiah 3:7

And I thought, “After she has done all this she will return to me,” but she did not return, and her false sister Judah saw it.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.

Hosea 11:5

They shall return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria shall be their king, because they have refused to return to me.

Hosea 7:10

Israel’s pride testifies against him; yet they do not return to the Lord their God or seek him, for all this.

Amos 4:6

I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Micah 6:14

You shall eat but not be satisfied, and there shall be a gnawing hunger within you; you shall put away but not save, and what you save, I will hand over to the sword.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Haggai 2:17

I struck you and every work of your hands with blight and mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.