7And I also — I have withheld from you the rain. While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city, And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it raineth not withereth.
Amos 4 is a devastating courtroom indictment. The prophet turns from the surrounding nations to address Israel directly, targeting the wealthy women of Samaria (the "cows of Bashan") and the empty religiosity of Bethel and Gilgal. God recounts a series of failed judgments — famin
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