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You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire, yet you have not returned to me,&#8221 declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/amos/4.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“I destroyed some of your cities, as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Those of you who survived were like charred sticks pulled from a fire. But still you would not return to me,” says the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/amos/4.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/amos/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/amos/4.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />I have overthrown <i>some</i> of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/amos/4.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“I overthrew <i>some</i> 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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/amos/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a log snatched from a fire; Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/amos/4.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze; Yet you have not returned to Me,&#8221 declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/amos/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze; Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/amos/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“I overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand delivered from a blaze; Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Yahweh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/amos/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“I overthrew <i>and</i> destroyed [some among] you, as [I, your] God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were [rescued] like a log pulled out of the flame; Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/amos/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick snatched from a fire, yet you did not return to me — This is the LORD’s declaration.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/amos/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I overthrew some of you as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick snatched from a fire, yet you did not return to Me— this is the LORD&#8217s declaration. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/amos/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />I have overthrown cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/amos/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I destroyed many of you, just as I did the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. You were a burning stick I rescued from the fire. But even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/amos/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />I have overthrown some among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/amos/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning log snatched from a fire. And you still didn't return to me, declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/amos/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Those of you who survived were like a burning stick saved from a fire. Still you did not come back to me," says the LORD. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/amos/4.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"I overthrew your cities, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You've become like a burning ember, snatched from the fire, but you have not returned to me," declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/amos/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />?Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,? declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/amos/4.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me." The LORD is speaking! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/amos/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/amos/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a fire-brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/amos/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/amos/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />“I have overturned among you, "" Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, "" And you are as a brand delivered from a burning, "" And you have not turned back to Me,” "" A declaration of YHWH.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/amos/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> I have overturned among you, Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, And ye are as a brand delivered from a burning, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/amos/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />I overthrew among you as God overthrows Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye shall be as a fire-brand snatched from the burning: and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/amos/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/amos/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />I overturned you, just as God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah, and you became like an ember seized from the fire. And you did not return to me, says the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/amos/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I overthrew you as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah; you were like a brand plucked from the fire, Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the LORD. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/amos/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a brand snatched from the fire; yet you did not return to me, says the LORD.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/amos/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />I have overthrown you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you have become like a firebrand which is plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me, says the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/amos/4.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />I have overturned among you as God overturned Sadom and Amora, and you are as a firebrand that is saved from the flame, and you have not turned to me, says LORD JEHOVAH<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/amos/4.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />I have overthrown some of you, As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning; Yet have ye not returned unto Me, Saith the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/amos/4.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and ye became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/amos/4-11.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u4uh7eMswjw?start=652" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/amos/4.htm">Punishment Brings No Repentance</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2015.htm" title="2015: hā·p̄aḵ·tî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To turn, overturn. A primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert.">“Some of you I overthrew</a> <a href="/hebrew/ḇā·ḵem (Prep:: 2mp) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/4114.htm" title="4114: kə·mah·pê·ḵaṯ (Prep-k:: N-fsc) -- An overthrow. From haphak; a destruction.">as I overthrew</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hîm (N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God"></a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5467.htm" title="5467: sə·ḏōm (N-proper-fs) -- A Canaanite city near the Dead Sea. From an unused root meaning to scorch; burnt district; Sedom, a place near the Dead Sea.">Sodom</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: wə·’eṯ- (Conj-w:: DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6017.htm" title="6017: ‘ă·mō·rāh (N-proper-fs) -- A city in the Jordan Valley. From amar; a heap; Amorah, a place in Palestine.">and Gomorrah,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: wat·tih·yū (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-2mp) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">and you were</a> <a href="/hebrew/181.htm" title="181: kə·’ūḏ (Prep:: N-ms) -- A brand, firebrand. From an unused root meaning to rake together; a poker.">like a firebrand</a> <a href="/hebrew/5337.htm" title="5337: muṣ·ṣāl (V-Hofal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver. ">snatched</a> <a href="/hebrew/8316.htm" title="8316: miś·rē·p̄å̄h (Prep-m:: N-fs) -- A burning. From saraph; cremation.">from a blaze,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: wə·lō- (Conj-w:: Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">yet you did not</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: šaḇ·tem (V-Qal-Perf-2mp) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">return</a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘ā·ḏay (Prep:: 1cs) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">to Me,”</a> <a href="/hebrew/5002.htm" title="5002: nə·’um- (N-msc) -- Utterance. From na'am; an oracle.">declares</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD.</a> </span><span class="reftext">12</span>“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/19-24.htm">Genesis 19:24-25</a></span><br />Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens. / Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-9.htm">Isaiah 1:9</a></span><br />Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-40.htm">Jeremiah 50:40</a></span><br />As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_peter/2-6.htm">2 Peter 2:6</a></span><br />if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jude/1-7.htm">Jude 1:7</a></span><br />In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/29-23.htm">Deuteronomy 29:23</a></span><br />All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/4-6.htm">Lamentations 4:6</a></span><br />The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/2-9.htm">Zephaniah 2:9</a></span><br />Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/17-28.htm">Luke 17:28-30</a></span><br />It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. / But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. / It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19</a></span><br />And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/16-49.htm">Ezekiel 16:49-50</a></span><br />Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy. / Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/11-23.htm">Matthew 11:23-24</a></span><br />And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. / But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/9-29.htm">Romans 9:29</a></span><br />It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/11-8.htm">Revelation 11:8</a></span><br />Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/11-8.htm">Hosea 11:8</a></span><br />How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have you not returned to me, said the LORD.</p><p class="hdg">as God.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/19-24.htm">Genesis 19:24,25</a></b></br> Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm">Isaiah 13:19</a></b></br> And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/49-18.htm">Jeremiah 49:18</a></b></br> As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour <i>cities</i> thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.</p><p class="hdg">as a.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/zechariah/3-2.htm">Zechariah 3:2</a></b></br> And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: <i>is</i> not this a brand plucked out of the fire?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/3-15.htm">1 Corinthians 3:15</a></b></br> If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jude/1-23.htm">Jude 1:23</a></b></br> And others save with fear, pulling <i>them</i> out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.</p><p class="hdg">yet.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/amos/4-6.htm">Amos 4:6</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/6-28.htm">Jeremiah 6:28-30</a></b></br> They <i>are</i> all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: <i>they are</i> brass and iron; they <i>are</i> all corrupters… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/22-17.htm">Ezekiel 22:17-22</a></b></br> And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/proverbs/29-8.htm">Blaze</a> <a href="/job/12-5.htm">Brand</a> <a href="/amos/4-9.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/amos/4-8.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/amos/4-9.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/amos/4-9.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/amos/2-5.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/psalms/102-3.htm">Firebrand</a> <a href="/psalms/102-3.htm">Fire-Brand</a> <a href="/joel/1-13.htm">God's</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-40.htm">Gomorrah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-40.htm">Gomor'rah</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-40.htm">Overthrew</a> <a href="/daniel/11-17.htm">Overthrow</a> <a href="/daniel/11-41.htm">Overthrown</a> <a href="/daniel/11-4.htm">Plucked</a> <a href="/daniel/7-8.htm">Pulled</a> <a href="/amos/3-12.htm">Snatched</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-56.htm">Sodom</a> <a href="/hosea/10-7.htm">Stick</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/matthew/12-16.htm">Blaze</a> <a href="/zechariah/3-2.htm">Brand</a> <a href="/amos/7-4.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/amos/9-14.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/amos/4-13.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/amos/5-9.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/amos/5-6.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/judges/15-4.htm">Firebrand</a> <a href="/judges/15-4.htm">Fire-Brand</a> <a href="/jonah/3-10.htm">God's</a> <a href="/zephaniah/2-9.htm">Gomorrah</a> <a href="/matthew/10-15.htm">Gomor'rah</a> <a href="/matthew/21-12.htm">Overthrew</a> <a href="/micah/5-11.htm">Overthrow</a> <a href="/jonah/3-4.htm">Overthrown</a> <a href="/amos/9-15.htm">Plucked</a> <a href="/amos/9-15.htm">Pulled</a> <a href="/zechariah/3-2.htm">Snatched</a> <a href="/zephaniah/2-9.htm">Sodom</a> <a href="/zechariah/3-2.htm">Stick</a><div class="vheading2">Amos 4</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/amos/4-1.htm">He reproves Israel for oppression,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/amos/4-4.htm">for idolatry,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/amos/4-6.htm">and for their incorrigibleness.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The reference to these cities serves as a powerful reminder of God's capacity for judgment against sin and rebellion. Sodom and Gomorrah were known for their extreme wickedness, and their destruction by fire and brimstone became a symbol of divine retribution. By comparing Israel to these cities, the text underscores the severity of Israel's sin and the seriousness of God's warnings. This also highlights the historical reality of God's past judgments, serving as a warning to the Israelites of the consequences of their continued disobedience.<p><b>and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze</b><br>The imagery of a firebrand, or a burning stick, snatched from a blaze suggests a narrow escape from complete destruction. This metaphor indicates that although Israel faced severe judgment, they were spared total annihilation by God's mercy. The concept of being "snatched" implies divine intervention and grace, suggesting that God provided opportunities for repentance and redemption. This imagery is echoed in <a href="/zechariah/3-2.htm">Zechariah 3:2</a>, where Joshua the high priest is described as a "brand plucked from the fire," symbolizing God's deliverance and mercy.<p><b>yet you did not return to Me</b><br>Despite the warnings and acts of mercy, Israel's failure to return to God highlights their stubbornness and spiritual blindness. The call to "return" is a recurring theme in the prophetic literature, emphasizing repentance and restoration of the covenant relationship with God. This phrase reflects the persistent unfaithfulness of Israel, despite God's repeated calls for repentance. It echoes the broader biblical narrative of God's desire for His people to turn back to Him, as seen in passages like <a href="/jeremiah/3-12.htm">Jeremiah 3:12-14</a> and <a href="/hosea/14.htm">Hosea 14:1-2</a>.<p><b>declares the LORD</b><br>This phrase affirms the authority and authenticity of the message, emphasizing that it is not merely the prophet's words but a divine pronouncement. The use of "declares the LORD" is a common prophetic formula that underscores the seriousness and certainty of the message. It serves as a reminder that the warnings and judgments are not arbitrary but are rooted in the character and will of God. This declaration invites the audience to respond with reverence and obedience, recognizing the sovereignty of God over their lives.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/a/amos.htm">Amos</a></b><br>A prophet from the southern kingdom of Judah, called by God to deliver messages of judgment and repentance to the northern kingdom of Israel.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/s/sodom_and_gomorrah.htm">Sodom and Gomorrah</a></b><br>Ancient cities known for their wickedness and subsequently destroyed by God as a demonstration of His judgment (Genesis 19).<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The northern kingdom, often characterized by idolatry and social injustice during the time of Amos.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The covenant God of Israel, who calls His people to repentance and righteousness.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/f/firebrand.htm">Firebrand</a></b><br>A burning stick pulled from the fire, symbolizing Israel's narrow escape from complete destruction.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_judgment_and_mercy.htm">God's Judgment and Mercy</a></b><br>God’s judgment is real and severe, as seen in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Yet, His mercy is evident in the preservation of a remnant, symbolized by the firebrand.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a></b><br>Despite experiencing God's mercy, Israel failed to return to Him. This serves as a warning to heed God's call to repentance in our own lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/historical_lessons_for_today.htm">Historical Lessons for Today</a></b><br>The historical events of Sodom and Gomorrah are not just ancient accounts but serve as lessons for contemporary believers about the consequences of sin and the need for repentance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty.htm">God's Sovereignty</a></b><br>God is sovereign over nations and individuals, and His purposes will be accomplished, whether through judgment or mercy.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/u/urgency_of_response.htm">Urgency of Response</a></b><br>The imagery of a firebrand snatched from the blaze underscores the urgency of responding to God’s call before it is too late.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_amos_4.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Amos 4</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_accurate_is_israel's_fall_to_sodom's.htm">Amos 4:11 – How accurate is the parallel between Israel’s downfall and God’s earlier destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_does_god_need_intermediaries.htm">If God is all-powerful, why does He need intermediaries like angels and prophets?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_compare_judah_to_destroyed_sodom.htm">In Isaiah 1:9–10, why compare Judah’s corruption to Sodom and Gomorrah if those cities were already destroyed centuries earlier and have uncertain archaeological evidence? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_did_jesus_perform_miracles.htm">What does the Bible teach about learning to pray?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/amos/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(11) <span class= "bld">Overthrown.</span>--Another awful calamity, an earthquake, is referred to, and perhaps a volcanic eruption. Dr. Pusey enumerates a long series of earthquakes, which distressed Palestine, though not the central parts of the country, from the time of Julian to the twelfth century. The allusion to Sodom and Gomorrah gives a hint of the fierce licence and vice which had prevailed in some parts of the Northern kingdom, and called for chastisement.<p><span class= "bld">Some of you.</span>--More accurately <span class= "ital">among you.</span><p><span class= "bld">Brand plucked</span> . . .--Men would cast such a brand back into the fire. "Behold the goodness and severity of God."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/amos/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 11.</span> - The fifth visitation is the earthquake (<a href="/deuteronomy/29-23.htm">Deuteronomy 29:23</a>). <span class="cmt_word">I have overthrown.</span> This is the word used to describe the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (<a href="/genesis/19-25.htm">Genesis 19:25</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/20-16.htm">Jeremiah 20:16</a>), and it seems better to refer the occurrence mentioned to some such convulsions of nature which caused widespread destruction, than, as Keil and others, "to the utter confusion of the state by which Israel was brought to the verge of ruin." We do not know anything about the particular earthquake to which the prophet alludes. (For an exhaustive catalogue of the earthquakes in this country, see Pusey's notes on this verse.) <span class="cmt_word">As God overthrew.</span> The substitution of the name of God for the personal pronoun, when the Lord himself is speaking, is not uncommon in Hebrew. Here it rather takes the form of a quotation from Genesis. <span class="cmt_word">Ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning</span> (<a href="/zechariah/3-2.htm">Zechariah 3:2</a>, where see note) - a phrase which implies, not only a narrow escape, but an escape accompanied with loss. The "brand" not wholly consumed is yet blackened and diminished by the burning (comp. <a href="/2_kings/13-5.htm">2 Kings 13:5</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/amos/4-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">“Some of you I overthrew</span><br /><span class="heb">הָפַ֣כְתִּי</span> <span class="translit">(hā·p̄aḵ·tî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2015.htm">Strong's 2015: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert</span><br /><br /><span class="word">as I overthrew</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּמַהְפֵּכַ֤ת</span> <span class="translit">(kə·mah·pê·ḵaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4114.htm">Strong's 4114: </a> </span><span class="str2">A destruction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Sodom</span><br /><span class="heb">סְדֹ֣ם</span> <span class="translit">(sə·ḏōm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5467.htm">Strong's 5467: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sodom -- a Canaanite city near the Dead Sea</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and Gomorrah,</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲמֹרָ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·mō·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6017.htm">Strong's 6017: </a> </span><span class="str2">Gomorrah -- a city in the Jordan Valley</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and you were</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתִּהְי֕וּ</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tih·yū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like a firebrand</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּא֖וּד</span> <span class="translit">(kə·’ūḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_181.htm">Strong's 181: </a> </span><span class="str2">A brand, firebrand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">snatched</span><br /><span class="heb">מֻצָּ֣ל</span> <span class="translit">(muṣ·ṣāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hofal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5337.htm">Strong's 5337: </a> </span><span class="str2">To strip, plunder, deliver oneself, be delivered, snatch away, deliver</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from a blaze,</span><br /><span class="heb">מִשְׂרֵפָ֑ה‪‬‪‬</span> <span class="translit">(miś·śə·rê·p̄āh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8316.htm">Strong's 8316: </a> </span><span class="str2">Cremation</span><br /><br /><span class="word">yet you did not</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלֹֽא־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·lō-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">return</span><br /><span class="heb">שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם</span> <span class="translit">(šaḇ·tem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn back, in, to retreat, again</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to Me,”</span><br /><span class="heb">עָדַ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·ḏay)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> </span><span class="str2">As far as, even to, up to, until, while</span><br /><br /><span class="word">declares</span><br /><span class="heb">נְאֻם־</span> <span class="translit">(nə·’um-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5002.htm">Strong's 5002: </a> </span><span class="str2">An oracle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD.</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/amos/4-11.htm">Amos 4:11 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/amos/4-11.htm">OT Prophets: Amos 4:11 I have overthrown some of you as (Amo. 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