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O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(A)You have struck them down,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to repent.

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13 The people (A)did not turn to him who struck them,
    nor enquire of the Lord of hosts.

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Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
    and (A)lack of bread in all your places,
(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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so two or three cities (A)would wander to another city
    to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
(C)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
    your many gardens and your vineyards,
    your fig trees and your olive trees (D)the locust devoured;
(E)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
10 “I sent among you a pestilence (F)after the manner of Egypt;
    I killed your young men with the sword,
and (G)carried away your horses,[a]
    and (H)I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
(I)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
11 “I overthrew some of you,
    (J)as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
    and you were (K)as a brand[b] plucked out of the burning;
(L)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 4:10 Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses
  2. Amos 4:11 That is, a burning stick