Amos 4:9

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    I have struck you with blight and mildew: when your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees increased, the locust devoured them: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    I have smitten{H5221} you with blasting{H7711} and mildew:{H3420} the multitude{H7235} of your gardens{H1593} and your vineyards{H3754} and your fig-trees{H2132} and your olive-trees{H8384} hath the palmer-worm{H1501} devoured:{H398} yet have ye not returned{H7725} unto me, saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    I have smitten{H5221}{(H8689)} you with blasting{H7711} and mildew{H3420}: when your gardens{H1593} and your vineyards{H3754} and your fig trees{H8384} and your olive trees{H2132} increased{H7235}{(H8687)}, the palmerworm{H1501} devoured{H398}{(H8799)} them: yet have ye not returned{H7725}{(H8804)} unto me, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    I haue smyten you with drouth and blastinge: and loke how many orchardes, vinyardes, fygetrees and olyue trees ye had: ye catirpiller hath eaten them vp. But yet will ye not turne vnto me, sayeth the LORDE.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    I haue smitten you with blasting, and mildewe: your great gardens and your vineyardes, & your figtrees, and your oliue trees did the palmer worme deuoure: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, saith the Lord.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    I haue smitten you with blasting and mildeaw, your great gardens, and your vineyardes, and your figge trees, & your oliue trees, dyd the palmer worme denoure: yet haue ye not returned vnto me sayth the Lorde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; And your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: Yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “I destroyed your crops with blight and disease. Locusts kept devouring your orchards, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:22 : 22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, scorching heat, drought, blight, and mildew, which will pursue you until you perish.
  • Hag 2:17 : 17 I struck you—all the work of your hands— with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to me—this is the declaration of the LORD.
  • Joel 1:4 : 4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
  • Amos 4:6 : 6 I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.
  • Amos 7:1-2 : 1 This is what the Lord God showed me: He was forming a swarm of locusts at the beginning of the late crop, after the royal harvest. 2 When they had finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, 'Lord God, please forgive! How can Jacob survive? He is so small!'
  • Amos 4:8 : 8 People staggered from city to city for water but were not satisfied, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.
  • Joel 1:7 : 7 It has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away; their branches are made white.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten—the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—my great army that I sent among you.
  • Deut 28:42 : 42 Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.
  • 1 Kgs 8:37 : 37 When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight, mildew, locusts, or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, or whatever disaster or disease may come,
  • 2 Chr 6:28 : 28 When famine or plague comes to the land, blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or if an enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,
  • Job 36:8-9 : 8 If they are bound in chains and held captive by cords of suffering, 9 He declares to them their deeds and their transgressions, that they have acted proudly. 10 He opens their ears to instruction and tells them to turn away from iniquity. 11 If they listen and serve Him, they will complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasure. 12 But if they do not listen, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge. 13 The godless in heart harbor anger; they do not cry for help even when He binds them.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why will you still be struck down? Why do you continue to rebel? Every head is sick, and every heart is faint.
  • Isa 42:24-25 : 24 Who handed Jacob over to be plundered, and Israel to the looters? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They refused to walk in His ways or obey His law. 25 So He poured out on them His burning anger and the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, yet they did not take it to heart.
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense, declares the LORD.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 Lord, are Your eyes not on truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; You consumed them, but they refused to accept discipline. They hardened their faces more than a rock and refused to repent.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Amos 4:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10 I sent plagues among you like those in Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. The stench of your camps rose into your nostrils, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.

    11 I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand snatched from the burning, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.

  • Hag 2:17
    85%

    17 I struck you—all the work of your hands— with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to me—this is the declaration of the LORD.

  • Amos 4:6-8
    3 verses
    79%

    6 I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.

    7 I withheld the rain from you when there were still three months until harvest. I caused it to rain on one city but not on another; one field received rain, while another withered due to lack of it.

    8 People staggered from city to city for water but were not satisfied, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.

  • Joel 2:25
    79%

    25 I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten—the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—my great army that I sent among you.

  • Joel 1:4
    77%

    4 What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten; and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.

  • Mal 3:11
    73%

    11 I will rebuke the devourer for your sake, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your ground. Your vine in the field will not fail to bear fruit, says the Lord of Hosts.

  • Jer 8:13
    73%

    13 I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, no figs on the tree, and even the leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.

  • Jer 5:17
    72%

    17 They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.

  • Jer 29:17
    72%

    17 this is what the LORD of Armies says: 'I am about to send against them the sword, famine, and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten.'

  • Jer 15:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 'You have rejected Me,' declares the LORD. 'You keep going backward. So I have stretched out My hand against you and destroyed you; I am tired of relenting.'

    7 I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land; I have bereaved and destroyed My people, yet they have not turned from their ways.

  • Joel 1:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 Be ashamed, you farmers; wail, you vinekeepers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

    12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree withers; the pomegranate, the palm, and the apple tree—all the trees of the field are dried up. Indeed, joy has withered away from the people.

  • Joel 1:7
    72%

    7 It has laid waste my vine and ruined my fig tree. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away; their branches are made white.

  • Isa 9:13
    72%

    13 So the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

  • Hab 3:17
    72%

    17 Though the fig tree does not blossom and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • Deut 28:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21 The LORD will cause pestilence to cling to you until He has consumed you from the land that you are entering to possess.

    22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, scorching heat, drought, blight, and mildew, which will pursue you until you perish.

  • Hag 1:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 You expected much, but it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew it away. Why?” declares the LORD of Hosts. “Because My house remains in ruins, while each of you is busy with your own house.

    10 Therefore, because of you, the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.

  • Jer 4:8
    72%

    8 For this, put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

  • 1 Kgs 8:37
    72%

    37 When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight, mildew, locusts, or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, or whatever disaster or disease may come,

  • Lev 26:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your land will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

    21 If you continue to walk contrary to me and are unwilling to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over as your sins deserve.

  • Nah 3:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down. It will consume you like the young locusts. Multiply yourselves like locusts; increase yourselves like swarming locusts.

    16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The young locust strips the land and flies away.

  • Jer 21:14
    71%

    14 I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will consume everything around her.

  • Deut 28:42
    71%

    42 Swarms of insects will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your land.

  • Lev 26:16
    71%

    16 I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring sudden terror upon you, wasting diseases and fever that destroy your eyes and drain your strength. You will plant your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

  • 2 Chr 6:28
    71%

    28 When famine or plague comes to the land, blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or if an enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,

  • Hos 2:12
    71%

    12 Now I will uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers; no one will deliver her out of my hand.

  • Deut 28:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38 You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.

    39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink their wine or gather their grapes, for worms will eat them.

  • Jer 3:13
    70%

    13 Only acknowledge your guilt—that you have rebelled against the LORD your God, scattered your favors to strangers under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed my voice,' declares the LORD.

  • Jer 2:7
    70%

    7 I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its bounty. But you came and defiled my land. You made my inheritance detestable.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    70%

    14 So now the Lord is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a devastating plague.

  • Jer 11:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16 The LORD once called you a thriving olive tree, beautiful with luscious fruit. But with the sound of a great uproar, he has set it on fire, and its branches are broken.

    17 The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced disaster against you because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done to provoke me by burning incense to Baal.

  • Jer 4:3
    70%

    3 For this is what the LORD says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among thorns.

  • Jer 4:26
    70%

    26 I looked, and behold, the fertile land was a wilderness, and all its cities were torn down before the LORD, in the heat of His fierce anger.

  • Zech 7:14
    70%

    14 'I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known. The land was left so desolate behind them that no one could come or go. This is how they made the pleasant land a wasteland.'

  • Joel 1:17
    70%

    17 The seeds shrivel beneath their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the granaries are broken down, for the grain has dried up.

  • 2 Chr 7:13
    70%

    13 When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,

  • Jer 2:21
    70%

    21 I planted you as a choice vine, from the very best seed. How then have you turned into wild, degenerate branches of a foreign vine for me?

  • Mal 3:7
    70%

    7 From the days of your ancestors, you have turned away from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Hosts. But you ask, 'How shall we return?'

  • Isa 1:7
    70%

    7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your presence, foreigners devour your fields. It is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers.

  • Jer 14:19
    70%

    19 Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.