Amos 4:9
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
Context
This verse from Amos Chapter 4 connects to 10 cross-references. The women of Samaria — 'cows of Bashan' — who oppress the poor will be led out with fishhooks. Israel has not returned to God despite seven divine warnings: drought, failed harvests, locusts, plague, earthquake. The repetition of 'yet you …
Other Translations
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
I have smitten you with blasting and with mildew, The abundance of your gardens and of your vineyards, And of your figs, and of your olives, Eat doth the palmer-worm, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
Cross References
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme …
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if …
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; …
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set …
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have …
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the …
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast …