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Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you have not returned to me,&#8221 declares the LORD. <a href="/nlt/amos/4.htm">New Living Translation</a> “I struck your farms and vineyards with blight and mildew. Locusts devoured all your fig and olive trees. But still you would not return to me,” says the LORD. <a href="/esv/amos/4.htm">English Standard Version</a> “I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me,” declares the LORD. <a href="/bsb/amos/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. <a href="/kjv/amos/4.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/amos/4.htm">New King James Version</a> “I blasted you with blight and mildew. When your gardens increased, Your vineyards, Your fig trees, And your olive trees, The locust devoured them; Yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the LORD. <a href="/nasb_/amos/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “I struck you with scorching wind and mildew; The caterpillar was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees; Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD. <a href="/nasb/amos/4.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220I smote you with scorching wind and mildew; And the caterpillar was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees; Yet you have not returned to Me,&#8221 declares the LORD. <a href="/nasb77/amos/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “I smote you with scorching wind and mildew; And the caterpillar was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees and olive trees; Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the LORD. <a href="/lsb/amos/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “I struck you with scorching wind and mildew; And the gnawing locust was devouring Your many gardens and vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees; Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Yahweh. <a href="/amp/amos/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “I wounded you with blight [from the hot, blasting east wind] and with mildew; And the caterpillar devoured Your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees; Yet you have not returned to Me [in repentance],” says the LORD. <a href="/csb/amos/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees, yet you did not return to me. This is the LORD’s declaration. <a href="/hcsb/amos/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me. This is the LORD&#8217s declaration. <a href="/asv/amos/4.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/amos/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> I dried up your grain fields; your gardens and vineyards turned brown. Locusts ate your fig trees and olive orchards, but even then you rejected me. I, the LORD, have spoken! <a href="/erv/amos/4.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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 palmerworm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. <a href="/gwt/amos/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> I struck your [crops] with blight and mildew. Locusts repeatedly devoured your gardens, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees. And you still didn't return to me, declares the LORD. <a href="/gnt/amos/4.htm">Good News Translation</a> "I sent a scorching wind to dry up your crops. The locusts ate up all your gardens and vineyards, your fig trees and olive trees. Still you did not come back to me. <a href="/isv/amos/4.htm">International Standard Version</a> "I afflicted you with blight and fungus; and the locust swarm devoured the harvest of your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees, but you have not returned to me," declares the LORD. <a href="/msb/amos/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> ?I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,? declares the LORD. <a href="/net/amos/4.htm">NET Bible</a> "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! <a href="/nheb/amos/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "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 the LORD. <a href="/wbt/amos/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees increased, the palmer-worm devoured them: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. <a href="/web/amos/4.htm">World English Bible</a> “I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards, and the swarming locusts have devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/amos/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> “I have struck you with blasting and with mildew, "" The abundance of your gardens and of your vineyards, "" And of your figs, and of your olives, "" The palmer-worm eats, "" And you have not turned back to Me,” "" A declaration of YHWH. <a href="/ylt/amos/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 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. <a href="/slt/amos/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> I struck you with blasting and with yellowness: the multitudes of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olives the creeping locust shall eat: and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/amos/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> I struck you with a burning wind, and with mildew, the palmerworm hath eaten up your many gardens, and your vineyards: your olive groves, and fig groves: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord. <a href="/cpdv/amos/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> I struck you with a burning wind and with yellowing; the caterpillar has consumed your many gardens and your vineyards, your olive groves and your fig groves. And you did not return to me, says the Lord. <a href="/nabre/amos/4.htm">New American Bible</a> I struck you with blight and mildew; locusts devoured your gardens and vineyards, the caterpillar consumed your fig trees and olive trees; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the LORD. <a href="/nrsvce/amos/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> I struck you with blight and mildew; I laid waste your gardens and your vineyards; the locust devoured your fig trees and your olive trees; yet you did not return to me, says the LORD.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/amos/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> I have smitten you with blight and mildew, and with hail stones; and many of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees were eaten by the creeping locust; and yet you did not return to me, says the LORD. <a href="/hpbt/amos/4.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> I struck you with blight and with jaundice and with hail and many of your gardens and of your vineyards and of your fig trees and of your olives the palmer worm has eaten, and you were not turned to me, says LORD JEHOVAH<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/amos/4.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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 the LORD. <a href="/sep/amos/4.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> I smote you with parching, and with blight: ye multiplied your gardens, your vineyards, and your fig-grounds, and the cankerworm devoured your olive-yards: yet not even thus did ye return to me, saith the Lord. <a href="/parallel/amos/4-9.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u4uh7eMswjw?start=621" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/amos/4.htm">Punishment Brings No Repentance</a> …8People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. 9<a href="/hebrew/5221.htm" title="5221: hik·kê·ṯî (V-Hifil-Perf-1cs) -- To smite. A primitive root; to strike.">“I struck</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ·ḵem (DirObjM:: 2mp) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7711.htm" title="7711: baš·šid·dā·p̄ō·wn (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Blighted or blasted thing. Or shiddaphown; from shadaph; blight.">you with blight</a> <a href="/hebrew/3420.htm" title="3420: ū·ḇay·yê·rā·qō·wn (Conj-w, Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Mildew, paleness, lividness. From yereq; paleness, whether of persons, or of plants.">and mildew</a> <a href="/hebrew/7235.htm" title="7235: har·bō·wṯ (V-Hifil-Inf) -- To be or become much, many or great. A primitive root; to increase.">in your growing</a> <a href="/hebrew/1593.htm" title="1593: gan·nō·w·ṯê·ḵem (N-fpc:: 2mp) -- A garden. Feminine of gan; a garden.">gardens</a> <a href="/hebrew/3754.htm" title="3754: wə·ḵar·mê·ḵem (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 2mp) -- A vineyard. From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a garden or vineyard.">and vineyards;</a> <a href="/hebrew/1501.htm" title="1501: hag·gā·zām (Art:: N-ms) -- Locusts. From an unused root meaning to devour; a kind of locust.">the locust</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: yō·ḵal (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">devoured</a> <a href="/hebrew/8384.htm" title="8384: ū·ṯə·’ê·nê·ḵem (Conj-w:: N-fpc:: 2mp) -- Fig tree. Or t:enah; perhaps of foreign derivation; the fig.">your fig</a> <a href="/hebrew/2132.htm" title="2132: wə·zê·ṯê·ḵem (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 2mp) -- Olive tree, olive. Probably from an unused root; an olive, the tree, the branch or the berry.">and olive trees,</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> 10“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.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-22.htm">Deuteronomy 28:22</a> The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish. <a href="/haggai/2-17.htm">Haggai 2:17</a> I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD. <a href="/joel/1-4.htm">Joel 1:4</a> What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten. <a href="/joel/1-7.htm">Joel 1:7</a> It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white. <a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Joel 1:10-12</a> The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. / Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. / The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up. <a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a> I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.” <a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Jeremiah 5:17</a> They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.” <a href="/jeremiah/8-13.htm">Jeremiah 8:13</a> I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.” <a href="/jeremiah/14-2.htm">Jeremiah 14:2-4</a> “Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. / The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads. / The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads. <a href="/ezekiel/17-10.htm">Ezekiel 17:10</a> Even if it is transplanted, will it flourish? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes? It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.’” <a href="/ezekiel/19-12.htm">Ezekiel 19:12</a> But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them. <a href="/1_kings/8-37.htm">1 Kings 8:37</a> When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come, <a href="/2_chronicles/6-28.htm">2 Chronicles 6:28</a> When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come, <a href="/matthew/21-19.htm">Matthew 21:19</a> Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered. <a href="/mark/11-20.htm">Mark 11:20-21</a> As they were walking back in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from its roots. / Peter remembered it and said, “Look, Rabbi! The fig tree You cursed has withered.”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>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 you not returned to me, said the LORD.with.<a href="/deuteronomy/28-22.htm">Deuteronomy 28:22</a> The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.<a href="/1_kings/8-37.htm">1 Kings 8:37</a> If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;<a href="/2_chronicles/6-28.htm">2 Chronicles 6:28</a> If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:when, etc.<a href="/amos/7-1.htm">Amos 7:1,2</a> Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings… <a href="/deuteronomy/28-42.htm">Deuteronomy 28:42</a> All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.<a href="/joel/1-4.htm">Joel 1:4</a> That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.yet.<a href="/amos/4-6.htm">Amos 4:6,8</a> 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… <a href="/job/36-8.htm">Job 36:8-13</a> And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; … <a href="/isaiah/1-5.htm">Isaiah 1:5</a> Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_chronicles/6-28.htm">Blasting</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/6-28.htm">Blight</a> <a href="/amos/2-5.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/joel/2-25.htm">Caterpillar</a> <a href="/amos/4-8.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/amos/3-15.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/joel/1-20.htm">Devoured</a> <a href="/joel/2-5.htm">Devouring</a> <a href="/hosea/5-13.htm">Disease</a> <a href="/amos/1-2.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/joel/2-22.htm">Fig</a> <a href="/hosea/2-12.htm">Fig-Trees</a> <a href="/amos/4-6.htm">Food</a> <a href="/jeremiah/29-28.htm">Gardens</a> <a href="/joel/2-22.htm">Increase</a> <a href="/hosea/10-1.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/joel/2-25.htm">Locust</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/6-28.htm">Mildew</a> <a href="/hosea/10-13.htm">Multitude</a> <a href="/hosea/14-6.htm">Olive</a> <a href="/job/24-11.htm">Olive-Trees</a> <a href="/joel/2-25.htm">Palmerworm</a> <a href="/joel/2-25.htm">Palmer-Worm</a> <a href="/jeremiah/4-11.htm">Scorching</a> <a href="/amos/3-15.htm">Smitten</a> <a href="/daniel/8-7.htm">Smote</a> <a href="/hosea/9-16.htm">Struck</a> <a href="/joel/2-25.htm">Swarming</a> <a href="/hosea/12-6.htm">Times</a> <a href="/joel/2-22.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/joel/1-11.htm">Vine-Gardens</a> <a href="/hosea/2-15.htm">Vineyards</a> <a href="/amos/1-14.htm">Wind</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-11.htm">Worms</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/haggai/2-17.htm">Blasting</a> <a href="/haggai/2-17.htm">Blight</a> <a href="/amos/4-11.htm">Burning</a> <a href="/1_kings/8-37.htm">Caterpillar</a> <a href="/amos/4-11.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/amos/4-11.htm">Destruction</a> <a href="/amos/7-4.htm">Devoured</a> <a href="/malachi/3-11.htm">Devouring</a> <a href="/habakkuk/3-5.htm">Disease</a> <a href="/obadiah/1-19.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/micah/4-4.htm">Fig</a> <a href="/nahum/3-12.htm">Fig-Trees</a> <a href="/amos/8-11.htm">Food</a> <a href="/amos/9-14.htm">Gardens</a> <a href="/haggai/1-10.htm">Increase</a> <a href="/amos/5-12.htm">Increased</a> <a href="/nahum/3-15.htm">Locust</a> <a href="/haggai/2-17.htm">Mildew</a> <a href="/micah/2-12.htm">Multitude</a> <a href="/micah/6-15.htm">Olive</a> <a href="/zechariah/4-3.htm">Olive-Trees</a> <a href="/joel/1-4.htm">Palmerworm</a> <a href="/joel/1-4.htm">Palmer-Worm</a> <a href="/jonah/4-8.htm">Scorching</a> <a href="/amos/6-11.htm">Smitten</a> <a href="/jonah/4-7.htm">Smote</a> <a href="/jonah/1-7.htm">Struck</a> <a href="/nahum/3-15.htm">Swarming</a> <a href="/amos/5-13.htm">Times</a> <a href="/nahum/2-3.htm">Trees</a> <a href="/amos/5-17.htm">Vine-Gardens</a> <a href="/amos/5-11.htm">Vineyards</a> <a href="/amos/4-13.htm">Wind</a> <a href="/micah/7-17.htm">Worms</a><div class="vheading2">Amos 4</div>1. <a href="/amos/4-1.htm">He reproves Israel for oppression,</a> 4. <a href="/amos/4-4.htm">for idolatry,</a> 6. <a href="/amos/4-6.htm">and for their incorrigibleness.</a> </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'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/amos/4.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/amos/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/amos/4.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; This phrase indicates divine judgment through agricultural calamities. Blight and mildew are common plant diseases that can devastate crops, often seen as a sign of divine displeasure in the Old Testament. In <a href="/deuteronomy/28-22.htm">Deuteronomy 28:22</a>, these are listed among the curses for disobedience. The mention of gardens and vineyards highlights the economic and sustenance impact, as these were vital for Israel's livelihood. The use of natural disasters as a form of judgment underscores God's sovereignty over creation and His ability to use it to call His people to repentance.the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, Locusts are frequently associated with divine judgment in the Bible, as seen in the plagues of Egypt (<a href="/exodus/10-12.htm">Exodus 10:12-15</a>) and the prophecy of Joel (<a href="/joel/1-4.htm">Joel 1:4</a>). Figs and olives were staple crops in Israel, symbolizing prosperity and blessing. The destruction of these trees would have been a severe blow to the community's economy and daily life. This imagery serves as a reminder of the consequences of turning away from God and the futility of relying on material wealth for security.yet you did not return to Me,” This phrase highlights the purpose of the calamities: to prompt repentance and a return to God. Despite the clear signs of divine intervention, the people of Israel failed to recognize their need to repent. This reflects a recurring theme in the prophetic books, where God calls His people to return to Him, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/1-18.htm">Isaiah 1:18</a> and <a href="/hosea/14.htm">Hosea 14:1</a>. The stubbornness of the people serves as a warning against hard-heartedness and the importance of heeding God's call.declares the LORD. The declaration by the LORD emphasizes the authority and finality of the message. It is a reminder that these words are not merely the prophet's but are spoken by God Himself. This divine authority underscores the seriousness of the warning and the certainty of the consequences if the people do not repent. The use of "declares the LORD" is a common prophetic formula that authenticates the message as coming directly from God, as seen throughout the prophetic literature.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/a/amos.htm">Amos</a> A prophet from the southern kingdom of Judah, called by God to deliver messages to the northern kingdom of Israel. His prophecies often focused on social justice and the need for true worship. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The northern kingdom, which had turned away from God, engaging in idolatry and social injustices. Amos directed his prophecies towards them, calling for repentance. 3. <a href="/topical/b/blight_and_mildew.htm">Blight and Mildew</a> Agricultural disasters used by God as a form of judgment. Blight refers to a plant disease causing withering, while mildew is a fungal growth that damages crops. 4. <a href="/topical/l/locusts.htm">Locusts</a> Insects that can devastate crops, symbolizing God's judgment and a call to repentance. Locust plagues were a known threat in the ancient Near East. 5. <a href="/topical/g/gardens,_vineyards,_fig_trees,_olive_trees.htm">Gardens, Vineyards, Fig Trees, Olive Trees</a> Represent the agricultural wealth and sustenance of Israel, which were affected by God's judgment due to their disobedience.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/d/divine_discipline.htm">Divine Discipline</a> God uses natural disasters as a form of discipline to draw His people back to Him. Recognize the signs of God's discipline in your life and respond with repentance. <a href="/topical/c/call_to_repentance.htm">Call to Repentance</a> Despite the judgments, Israel did not return to God. Reflect on areas in your life where you may be ignoring God's call to return to Him. <a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty.htm">God's Sovereignty</a> God is in control of all creation, including natural events. Trust in His sovereignty, even when facing difficult circumstances. <a href="/topical/s/spiritual_awareness.htm">Spiritual Awareness</a> Be spiritually aware and sensitive to God's messages through life's events. Cultivate a heart that is quick to respond to God's correction. <a href="/topical/f/fruitfulness_and_faithfulness.htm">Fruitfulness and Faithfulness</a> Just as Israel's agricultural fruitfulness was affected by their unfaithfulness, consider how spiritual fruitfulness in your life is linked to your faithfulness to God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_amos_4.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Amos 4</a> <a href="/q/do_amos_4_9-10_plagues_match_history.htm">Amos 4:9–10 – Do the described plagues (blight, mildew, locusts, pestilence) align with known historical or scientific data? </a> <a href="/q/what_is_sabbatarianism.htm">What does the Bible say about mildew?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_about_mildew.htm">What does the Bible say about mildew?</a> <a href="/q/key_themes_in_amos.htm">What are the key themes in the Book of Amos?</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>(9) Blasting and mildew.--Burning up the corn before it is ready to ear, and producing a tawny yellow, instead of golden red, was another judgment. Nothing escapes the Divine visitation. "Your gardens, vineyards, fig-trees, and olive-trees"--which in a well-watered enclosure might escape the general drought--the locust devours in vast numbers (so the Heb. should be rendered); comp. <a href="/joel/1-4.htm" title="That which the palmerworm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust has left has the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm has left has the caterpillar eaten.">Joel 1:4</a>.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/amos/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 9. - The third chastisement is occasioned by blight (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-22.htm">Deuteronomy 28:22</a>) and palmerworm (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-39.htm">Deuteronomy 28:39, 42</a>). Blasting; the scorching east wind spoken of by Isaiah (<a href="/isaiah/27-8.htm">Isaiah 27:8</a>) and Ezekiel (<a href="/ezekiel/17-10.htm">Ezekiel 17:10</a>). Vulgate, in vento urente; Septuagint, ἐν πυρώσει, "with parching;" Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, ἀνεμοφθρία. Mildew; a blight, under the influence of which the ears of corn turned yellow and became unfruitful. "Blasting and mildew" are mentioned together in Moses' curse (<a href="/deuteronomy/28-22.htm">Deuteronomy 28:22</a>) and in Solomon's dedication prayer (<a href="/1_kings/8-37.htm">1 Kings 8:37</a>; comp. <a href="/haggai/2-17.htm">Haggai 2:17</a>). The LXX. has, ἐν ἰκτέρῳ, "with jaundice." When your gardens... increased. It is better to take this sentence as the English margin, "The multitude of your gardens... hath the palmerworm devoured." So the Vulgate, Multitudinem hortorum tuorum... comedit eruca. Gardens included orchards, herbaries, and pleasure grounds. The palmerworm; gazam; Septuagint, κάμπη: Vulgate, eruca. The word occurs in <a href="/joel/1-4.htm">Joel 1:4</a>; <a href="/joel/2-25.htm">Joel 2:25</a>, and is taken by many commentators to mean some kind of locust; but it is more probable that the Greek and Latin translators are right in regarding it as "a caterpillar" (see Smith, 'Dict. of the Bible,' 2:696, etc.; 'Bible Educator,' 4:293). Amos seems to be referring to the visitation in Joel's time, if we take gazam ("biter") to be a kind of locust. <a href="/commentaries/amos/4-9.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>“I struck הִכֵּ֣יתִי (hik·kê·ṯî) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5221.htm">Strong's 5221: </a> To strike you with blight בַּשִּׁדָּפ֣וֹן (baš·šid·dā·p̄ō·wn) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7711.htm">Strong's 7711: </a> Blighted or blasted thing and mildew וּבַיֵּרָקוֹן֒ (ū·ḇay·yê·rā·qō·wn) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3420.htm">Strong's 3420: </a> Mildew, paleness, lividness in your growing הַרְבּ֨וֹת (har·bō·wṯ) Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7235.htm">Strong's 7235: </a> To be or become much, many or great gardens גַּנּוֹתֵיכֶ֧ם (gan·nō·w·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1593.htm">Strong's 1593: </a> A garden and vineyards; וְכַרְמֵיכֶ֛ם (wə·ḵar·mê·ḵem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3754.htm">Strong's 3754: </a> A garden, vineyard the locust הַגָּזָ֑ם (hag·gā·zām) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1501.htm">Strong's 1501: </a> A kind of locust devoured יֹאכַ֣ל (yō·ḵal) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> To eat your fig וּתְאֵנֵיכֶ֥ם (ū·ṯə·’ê·nê·ḵem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8384.htm">Strong's 8384: </a> Of foreign derivation, the fig and olive trees, וְזֵיתֵיכֶ֖ם (wə·zê·ṯê·ḵem) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2132.htm">Strong's 2132: </a> An olive, the tree, the branch, the berry yet you did not וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no return שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם (šaḇ·tem) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> To turn back, in, to retreat, again to Me,” עָדַ֖י (‘ā·ḏay) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while declares נְאֻם־ (nə·’um-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5002.htm">Strong's 5002: </a> An oracle the LORD. יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/amos/4-9.htm">Amos 4:9 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/amos/4-9.htm">OT Prophets: Amos 4:9 I struck you with blight and mildew (Amo. 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