Amos 4:7

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Summary

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.

I have

When

Joel 2:23

John 4:35

And i

1 Corinthians 4:7

And the

Joel 1:10

Bible References

I have

If you still will not listen to me, I will discipline you seven times for your sins.

The sky above will look like copper and the ground below will be as hard as iron.

When you hold back the rain because your people have sinned against you. And when they repent in this Temple, humbly praying to you,

I may shut the sky so that there is no rain, or command grasshoppers to devour the countryside, or send an epidemic among my people.

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor cultivated. It will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

Accordingly the rain has been withheld, and there have been no spring showers. Yet, you have the unashamed (conspicuous) (impudent) look of a prostitute, and you refuse to be ashamed.

They do not say in their hearts, to themselves: 'We should respect Jehovah our God. He sends rain at the right time, the autumn rain and the spring rain. He makes sure that we have harvest seasons.'

There is no rain in the land and the ground is cracked. The farmers are disappointed. They cover their heads.

It is because of you that the sky above you withholds the dew, and the earth below withholds its produce.

There will be no rain on those who do not go to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts.

Elijah was a man of like passions with us. He prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.

These (two witnesses) have power to shut the sky so that it will not rain in the days of their prophecy. They have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

When

Be glad you children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God! For he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes it to rain, the early rain and the latter rain, in the first month.

Do you say there are four months until the harvest comes? I say to you lift up your eyes and look on the fields. They are already white for harvest.

And i

At that same time I will cut off the land of Goshen where my people live. No swarms of flies shall be there. / Then you will know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.

Jehovah will distinguish between Israel's livestock and the livestock of the Egyptians. The animals belonging to the Israelites will not die.'

The Egyptians could not see each other. No one left his house during that time. The Israelites, however, had light where they were living.

Look I will place wool on the threshing floor where we thresh the wheat. If in the morning there is dew only on the wool but not on the ground, I will know that you are going to use me to rescue Israel.

For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it?

And the

The field is laid waste, the land mourns. The grain is destroyed, the new wine dried up, the oil fails.