Amos 4:10

Amos 4:10

8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
But they were not satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

9 “I^a blasted you with blight and mildew.
When your gardens increased,
Your vineyards,
Your fig trees,
And your olive trees,
^bThe locust devoured them;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

10 “I sent among you a plague ^aafter the manner of Egypt;
Your young men I killed with a sword,
Along with your captive horses;
I made the stench of your camps come up into your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

11 “I overthrew some of you,
As God overthrew ^aSodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.

12 “Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel;
Because I will do this to you,
^aPrepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

13 For behold,
He who forms mountains,
And creates the¹ wind,
^aWho declares to man what¹ his thought is,
And makes the morning darkness,
^bWho treads the high places of the earth—
^cThe Lord God of hosts is His name.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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pestilence after the manner of Egypt—such as I formerly sent on the Egyptians (Exodus 9:3, Exodus 9:8, etc.; Exodus 12:29; Deuteronomy 28:27, Deuteronomy 28:60). Compare the same phrase, Isaiah 10:24.

have taken away your horses—literally, "accompanied with the captivity of your horses"; I have given up your young men to be slain, and their horses to be taken by the foe (compare II Kings 13:7).

stink of your camps—that is, of your slain men (compare Isaiah 34:3; Joel 2:20).

to come up unto your nostrils—The Hebrew is more emphatic, "to come up, and that unto your nostrils."

Amos 4:6-11

Jehovah details His several chastisements inflicted with a view to reclaiming them: but adds to each the same sad result, "yet have ye not returned unto Me" (Isaiah 9:13; Jeremiah 5:3; Hosea 7:10); the monotonous repetition of the same burden marking their pitiable obstinacy.

cleanness of teeth—explained by the parallel, "want of bread." The famine alluded to is that mentioned in II Kings 8:1 [GROTIUS]. Where there is no food to masticate, the teeth are free from uncleanness, but it is the cleanness of want. Compare Proverbs 14:4, "Where no oxen are, the crib is clean." So spiritually, where all is outwardly smooth and clean, it is often because there is no solid religion. Better fighting and fears with real piety, than peace and respectable decorum without spiritual life.

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