Amos 4:9 BSB — MannaFest

Amos 4:9

“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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

I have smitten you with blasting and mildew,.... "Blasting" is what we commonly call "blights", generally occasioned by an east wind; and so Kimchi interprets the word here used; and the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "a burning wind"; which causes the buds and leaves of trees to shrivel up as if they were burnt with fire.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Their vineyards and gardens yielded their increase in great abundance, so did their fig-trees and olive-trees; but the palmer-worm devoured them before the fruits were ripe, and fit to be gathered in. This was either the same judgment with that which we read of Joel i. 4-6 , or a less judgment of the same nature, sent before to give warning of that.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I have smitten you with blasting - Literally, “an exceeding scorching,” such as the hot east wind produced, and “an exceeding mildew,” a blight, in which the ears turn untimely a pale yellow, and have no grain. Both words are doubly intensive. They stand together in the prophecy of Moses Deu 28:22, among the other scourges of disobedience; and the mention of these would awaken, in those who would hear, the memory of a long train of other warnings and other judgments.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִכֵּ֣יתִי	hi.Kei.ti	I struck	H5221 →
אֶתְכֶם֮	'et.Khem	<obj.> you	H853 →
בַּשִּׁדָּפ֣וֹן	ba.shi.da.Fon	with <the> blight	H7711 →
וּבַיֵּרָקוֹן֒	u.vai.ye.ra.kOn	and with <the> mildew	H3420 →
הַרְבּ֨וֹת	har.Bot	to make many	H7235 →
גַּנּוֹתֵיכֶ֧ם	ga.no.tei.Khem	gardens your	H1593 →
וְכַרְמֵיכֶ֛ם	ve.khar.mei.Khem	and vineyards your	H3754 →
וּתְאֵנֵיכֶ֥ם	u.te.'e.nei.Khem	and fig trees your	H8384 →
וְזֵיתֵיכֶ֖ם	ve.zei.tei.Khem	and olive trees your	H2132 →
יֹאכַ֣ל	yo.Khal	it ate	H398 →
הַגָּזָ֑ם	ha.ga.Zam	the locust	H1501 →
וְלֹֽא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
שַׁבְתֶּ֥ם	shav.Tem	you returned	H7725 →
עָדַ֖י	'a.Dai	to me	H5704 →
נְאֻם־	ne.'um-	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהוָֽה׃ ס	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Joel 1:4
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.
leads to
- Joel 2:25
  I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
- Exodus 10:4
  But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
- Psalms 78:46
  He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.
- Amos 7:1
  This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
Through
Amos 4:6
“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
leads to
- Haggai 2:17
  I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Deuteronomy 28:22
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.
leads to
- 1 Kings 8:37
  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,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Leviticus 26:16
  then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed…
Through
Haggai 2:17
I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:22
  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.

About Amos

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Amos

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Amos