Amos 4:9

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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • 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 shall strike you with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
  • Hag 2:17 : 17 I struck you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not turn to Me, says the LORD.
  • Joel 1:4 : 4 What the palmerworm has left, the locust has eaten; and what the locust has left, the cankerworm has eaten; and what the cankerworm has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
  • Amos 4:6 : 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.
  • Amos 7:1-2 : 1 Thus the Lord GOD showed to me; and, behold, he formed locusts at the beginning of the late growth; and, lo, it was the late growth after the king's mowings. 2 And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beg you: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
  • Amos 4:8 : 8 So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.
  • Joel 1:7 : 7 He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.
  • Joel 2:25 : 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
  • Deut 28:42 : 42 All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.
  • 1 Kgs 8:37 : 37 If there is in the land famine, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or if there is caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
  • 2 Chr 6:28 : 28 If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is:
  • Job 36:8-9 : 8 And if they are bound in chains, and held in cords of affliction; 9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. 10 He also opens their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity. 11 If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures. 12 But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge. 13 But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they do not cry out when he binds them.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Isa 42:24-25 : 24 Who gave Jacob for a plunder, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. 25 Therefore he has poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it set him on fire all around, yet he did not know; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
  • Jer 3:10 : 10 And yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to me with her whole heart, but in pretension, says the LORD.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 4:10-11
    2 verses
    85%

    10I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men I have slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stench of your camps to come up to your nostrils: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.

    11I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.

  • Hag 2:17
    85%

    17I struck you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not turn to Me, says the LORD.

  • Amos 4:6-8
    3 verses
    79%

    6And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.

    7And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were still three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece where it did not rain withered.

    8So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.

  • Joel 2:25
    79%

    25And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

  • Joel 1:4
    77%

    4What the palmerworm has left, the locust has eaten; and what the locust has left, the cankerworm has eaten; and what the cankerworm has left, the caterpillar has eaten.

  • Mal 3:11
    73%

    11And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; nor shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.

  • Jer 8:13
    73%

    13I will surely consume them, says the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall wither; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

  • Jer 5:17
    72%

    17And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your daughters should eat: they shall eat up your flocks and your herds: they shall eat up your vines and your fig trees: they shall impoverish your fortified cities, wherein you trusted, with the sword.

  • Jer 29:17
    72%

    17Thus says the LORD of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

  • Jer 15:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6You have forsaken me, says the LORD, you have gone backward: therefore I will stretch out my hand against you, and destroy you; I am weary with repenting.

    7And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they do not return from their ways.

  • Joel 1:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

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

    12The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy has withered away from the sons of men.

  • Joel 1:7
    72%

    7He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree: he has made it bare and cast it away; its branches are made white.

  • Isa 9:13
    72%

    13For the people do not turn to him who strikes them, nor do they seek the LORD of hosts.

  • Hab 3:17
    72%

    17Though the fig tree shall not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

  • Deut 28:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21The LORD shall make the pestilence cling unto you, until He has consumed you from off the land, where you go to possess it.

    22The LORD shall strike you with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

  • Hag 1:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of My house that is in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.

    10Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

  • Jer 4:8
    72%

    8For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  • 1 Kgs 8:37
    72%

    37If there is in the land famine, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or if there is caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

  • Lev 26:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

    21And if you walk contrary to me, and will not listen to me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

  • Nah 3:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust: make yourself many like the locust, make yourself many like the swarming locusts.

    16You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven: the locust spoils, and flies away.

  • Jer 21:14
    71%

    14But I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds, says the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.

  • Deut 28:42
    71%

    42All your trees and fruit of your land shall the locust consume.

  • Lev 26:16
    71%

    16I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning fever, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

  • 2 Chr 6:28
    71%

    28If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is:

  • Hos 2:12
    71%

    12And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the animals of the field shall eat them.

  • Deut 28:38-39
    2 verses
    71%

    38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

    39You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

  • Jer 3:13
    70%

    13Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice, says the LORD.

  • Jer 2:7
    70%

    7And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    70%

    14behold, with a great plague the LORD will strike your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions.

  • Jer 11:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16The LORD called your name, A green olive tree, lovely and of good fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and its branches are broken.

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  • Jer 4:3
    70%

    3For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your unplowed ground, and sow not among thorns.

  • Jer 4:26
    70%

    26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all its cities were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.

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    70%

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  • Joel 1:17
    70%

    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • 2 Chr 7:13
    70%

    13If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people;

  • Jer 2:21
    70%

    21Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?

  • Mal 3:7
    70%

    7Even from the days of your fathers you have gone away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, 'In what way shall we return?'.

  • Isa 1:7
    70%

    7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

  • Jer 14:19
    70%

    19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!