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Amos 4:7

And also I have withholden the rain from you, when [there were] yet 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 whereupon it rained not withered.

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KJV King James Version

And also I have withholden the rain from you, when [there were] yet 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 whereupon it rained not withered.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

WEB World English Bible

“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.

ASV American Standard Version

And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet 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 whereupon it rained not withered.

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

And I also—I have withheld from you the rain. While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city, And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it raineth not withereth.

Surrounding context — Amos 4

4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after three years:

5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim [and] publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when [there were] yet 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 whereupon it rained not withered.

8 So two [or] three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

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.

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

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וְגַ֣םH1571 · gamalso אָנֹכִי֩H595 · a.no.khiI מָנַ֨עְתִּיH4513 · ma.nato withhold מִכֶּ֜םH9036 · khemyou אֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הַגֶּ֗שֶׁםH1653 · ge.shemrain בְּע֨וֹדH5750 · odstill שְׁלֹשָׁ֤הH7969 · sha.loshthree חֳדָשִׁים֙H2320 · cho.deshmonth לַקָּצִ֔ירH7105 · qa.tsirharvest וְהִמְטַרְתִּי֙H4305 · ma.tarto rain עַל־H5921 · alupon עִ֣ירH5892 · irexcitement אֶחָ֔תH259 · e.chadone וְעַל־H5921 · alupon עִ֥ירH5892 · irexcitement אַחַ֖תH259 · e.chadone לֹ֣אH3808 · lonot אַמְטִ֑ירH4305 · ma.tarto rain חֶלְקָ֤הH2513 · chel.qahportion אַחַת֙H259 · e.chadone תִּמָּטֵ֔רH4305 · ma.tarto rain וְחֶלְקָ֛הH2513 · chel.qahportion אֲשֶֽׁר־H834 · a.sherwhich לֹֽא־H3808 · lonot תַמְטִ֥ירH4305 · ma.tarto rain עָלֶ֖יהָH5921 · alupon תִּיבָֽשׁ׃H3001 · ya.veshto wither

Cross-references

Exodus 9:26Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel [were], was there no hail.Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.Isaiah 5:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.Exodus 9:4And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all [that is] the children’s of Israel.Exodus 10:23They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.2 Chronicles 7:13-14If 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;Leviticus 26:27-28And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;1 Kings 8:35-36When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:Leviticus 26:23-24And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;Judges 6:37-40Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; [and] if the dew be on the fleece only, and [it be] dry upon all the earth [beside], then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.Leviticus 26:18-21And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.Deuteronomy 11:17And [then] the LORD’S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and [lest] ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.James 5:17Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.Joel 2:23Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month].Deuteronomy 28:23-24And thy heaven that [is] over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that [is] under thee [shall be] iron.Jeremiah 14:22Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].Zechariah 14:17And it shall be, [that] whoso will not come up of [all] the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.Haggai 1:10-11Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit.

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