Amos 4:10

"“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 the LORD."

Key Reflection

Amos 4:10 vividly portrays God’s judgment on Israel through a series of natural disasters, including blight, mildew, locusts, and other pests that ravaged their crops in the fertile lands of their gardens and vineyards. These agricultural calamities were not merely random misfortunes but deliberate acts of divine retribution, indicating God's severe displeasure with the people's continued rebellion against Him, despite these clear demonstrations of His wrath and discipline.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt -that is, after the way in which God had dealt with Egypt . God had twice promised, when the memory of the plagues which He sent on Egypt was still fresh “if thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God - I will put none of the diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians”Exodus 15:26;Deuteronomy 7:15. Contrariwise, God had forewarned them in that same prophecy of Moses, that, if they disobeyed Him, “He will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou was afraid of, and they shall cleave unto thee” (Deuteronomy 28:60, addDeuteronomy 28:27).

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