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Amos 4:5-7
The Voice
Amos 4:5-7
The Voice
5 Burn a thanksgiving offering of leavened bread,
boast about your freewill offerings, and let everyone know
because these things are what you love to do, people of Israel.
So says the Eternal Lord.
6 Eternal One: I kept your teeth clean and your stomachs empty
when famine struck all your cities and no food could be found in your towns,
But still you did not come back to Me.
7 I held back the rain from your fields
when there were still three months left until harvest.
I would send rain on one city
but not on another.
I would send rain on one field
but not on another, so the dry field withered.
Amos 4:5-7
New International Version
Amos 4:5-7
New International Version
5 Burn leavened bread(A) as a thank offering
and brag about your freewill offerings(B)—
boast about them, you Israelites,
for this is what you love to do,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.
6 “I gave you empty stomachs in every city
and lack of bread in every town,
yet you have not returned to me,”
declares the Lord.(C)
Amos 4:5-7
King James Version
Amos 4:5-7
King James Version
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.
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Amos 4:5-7
New King James Version
Amos 4:5-7
New King James Version
5 (A)Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven,
Proclaim and announce (B)the freewill offerings;
For this you love,
You children of Israel!”
Says the Lord God.
Israel Did Not Accept Correction
6 “Also I gave you [a]cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And lack of bread in all your places;
(C)Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
7 “I also withheld rain from you,
When there were still three months to the harvest.
I made it rain on one city,
I withheld rain from another city.
One part was rained upon,
And where it did not rain the part withered.
Footnotes
- Amos 4:6 Hunger
Amos 4:5-7
English Standard Version
Amos 4:5-7
English Standard Version
5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of (A)that which is leavened,
and proclaim (B)freewill offerings, publish them;
(C)for so you love to do, O people of Israel!”
declares the Lord God.
Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord
6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and (D)lack of bread in all your places,
(E)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
7 “I also (F)withheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
(G)I would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
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