Amos 4:6

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

"Sekalipun Aku ini telah memberi kepadamu gigi yang tidak disentuh makanan di segala kotamu dan kekurangan roti di segala tempat kediamanmu, namun kamu tidak berbalik kepada-Ku," demikianlah firman TUHAN.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
"Sekalipun Aku ini telah memberi kepadamu gigi yang tidak disentuh makanan di segala kotamu dan kekurangan roti di segala tempat kediamanmu, namun kamu tidak berbalik kepada-Ku," demikianlah firman TUHAN.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sebab itu juga Aku sudah memberi kepadamu keperesihan gigi dalam segala negerimu dan kekurangan makan dalam segala tempat kedudukanmu, tetapi tiada juga kamu bertobat kepada-Ku, demikianlah firman Tuhan.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Therfore haue I geue you cleannesse of teeth in all your cities, & scarsenesse of bread in all your places: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, sayth the Lorde. ⁷ And also I haue withholden the rayne from you when there were yet three monethes to the haruest, and I caused it to rayne vpon one citie, and haue not caused it to rayne vpon an other citie: one peece was raigned vpon, & the peece whervpon it rayned not, withered. ⁸ So two [or] three cities wandred vnto one citie to drinke water, but they were not satisfied: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, sayth the Lorde. ⁹ I haue smitten you with blasting and mildeaw, your great gardens, and your vineyardes, and your figge trees, & your oliue trees, dyd the palmer worme denoure: yet haue ye not returned vnto me sayth the Lorde. ¹⁰ Pestilence haue I sent among you after the maner of Egypt: your young men haue I slayne with the sworde, & haue taken away your horses, and I haue made the stinke of your tentes to come euen vp into your nostrels: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, sayth the Lorde. ¹¹ I haue ouerthrowen you, as God ouerthrewe Sodoma and Gomorra: and ye were as a fire brande pluckt out of the burning: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, sayth the Lorde. ¹² Therfore thus will I do vnto thee O Israel, [and] because I will do this vnto thee, prepare to meete thy God O Israel. ¹³ For lo, he that fourmeth the mountaynes, and createth the winde, and declareth vnto man what is his thought, whiche maketh the morning darkenesse, and walketh vpon the hie places of the earth, the Lorde God of hoastes is his name.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cleanness: From want of food, occasioned by severe famine.

and want: Leviticus 26:26, Deuteronomy 28:38, 1 Kings 17:1, 1 Kings 18:2, 2 Kings 4:38, 2 Kings 6:25-29, 2 Kings 8:1, Ezekiel 16:27

yet: Amos 4:8, Amos 4:9, 2 Chronicles 28:22, Isaiah 9:13, Isaiah 26:11, Jeremiah 5:3, Jeremiah 8:5-7, Hosea 5:15, Hosea 6:1, Hosea 7:14-16, Joel 2:12-14, Haggai 2:17, Zechariah 1:3-6, Revelation 2:21, Revelation 9:20, Revelation 9:21, Revelation 16:10, Revelation 16:11

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:23 - General Deuteronomy 28:16 - in the field Ruth 1:1 - a famine Job 1:18 - there came Proverbs 14:4 - clean Isaiah 19:22 - they shall Ezekiel 14:21 - my four Ezekiel 24:13 - because Hosea 5:2 - a rebuker Hosea 7:10 - and they Hosea 9:2 - floor Hosea 11:5 - because Joel 1:16 - the meat Amos 4:10 - yet Amos 4:11 - yet Micah 6:9 - hear Habakkuk 3:17 - the fig tree Haggai 1:6 - have Acts 12:20 - because Revelation 16:9 - to give

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
And Adam knewe Heua his wyfe, who conceauing bare Cain, saying: I haue gotten a man of the Lorde.

Genesis 4:3
And in processe of dayes it came to passe, that Cain brought of the fruite of the grounde, an oblation vnto ye lorde:

Genesis 4:4
Habel also brought of the firstlynges of his sheepe, & of the fatte thereof: and the Lorde had respect vnto Habel, and to his oblation.

Genesis 4:5
But vnto Cain and to his offeryng he had no respect: for the whiche cause Cain was exceedyng wroth, and his countenaunce abated.

Genesis 4:8
And Cain talked with Habel his brother: and it came to passe when they were in the fielde, Cain rose vp agaynst Habel his brother, & slewe him.

Genesis 4:11
And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.

Genesis 4:13
And Cain sayde vnto the Lord: My iniquitie is more then that it may be forgeuen.

Job 5:2
As for the foolish ma, wrathfulnesse killeth him, and enuie slayeth the ignorant.

Isaiah 1:18
And then go to, saith the Lorde, let vs talke together: though your sinnes be as red as scarlet, they shalbe as whyte as snowe: and though they were lyke purple, they shalbe as whyte as wooll.

Jeremiah 2:5
Thus saith the Lorde, What vnfaithfulnesse founde your fathers in me, that they went so farre away fro me, fallyng to lightnesse, and beyng so vayne?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,.... Meaning a famine, having no food to foul them with, or to stick in them. This was not the famine in Samaria, 2 Kings 6:25; for that was only in that city, and for a short time, while besieged; whereas this was in all the cities in Israel; rather therefore it designs the famine predicted by Elisha, which should be upon the land for seven years, 2 Kings 8:1;

and want of bread in all your places: this is the same with the former clause, and explains it, and still makes the famine more general, not only in their cities, but in all their places of abode, their towns and villages:

yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord; this judgment had no influence upon them, to bring them to a sense of their evils, particularly their idolatry, and to repentance them, and to reclaim them from them, and return them to the Lord, and to his worship, as the Targum paraphrases it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I, I too have given you - Such had been their gifts to God, worthless, because destitute of that which alone God requires of His creatures, a loving, simple, single-hearted, loyal obedience. So then God had but one gift which He could bestow, one only out of the rich storehouse of His mercies, since all besides were abused - chastisement. Yet this too is a great gift of God, a pledge of His love, who willed not that they should perish; an earnest of greater favors, had they used it. It is a great gift of God, that He should care for us, so as to chasten us. The chastisements too were no ordinary chastisements, but those which God forewarned in the law, that He would send, and, if they repented, He would, amid the chastisements, forgive. This famine God had sent everywhere, “in all their cities,” and “in all their places,” great and small. Israel thought that its calves, that is, nature, gave them these things. “She did not know,” God saith, “that I gave her corn and wine and oil;” but said, “These are my rewards that my lovers have given me” Hosea 2:8, Hosea 2:12. In the powers and operations of “nature,” they forgat the God and Author of nature. It was then the direct corrective of this delusion, that God withheld those powers and functions of nature. So might israel learn, if it would, the vanity of its worship, from its fruitlessness. Some such great famines in the time of Elijah and Elisha 1 Kings 17:0; 1 Kings 18:0; 2 Kings 8:1-6 Scripture records; but it relates them, only when God visibly interposed to bring, or to remove, or to mitigate them. Amos here speaks of other famines, which God sent, as He foretold in the law, but which produced no genuine fruits of repentance.

And ye returned not unto Me - He says not, that they “returned not at all,” but that they “returned not wholly, quite back to God” . Nay the emphatic saying, “ye did not return quite to Me,” so as to reach Me, implies that they did, after a fashion, return. Israel’s worship was a half, halting 1 Kings 18:21, worship. But a half-worship is no worship; a half-repentance is no repentance; repentance for one sin or one set of sins is no repentance, unless the soul repent of all which it can recall wherein it displeased its God. God does not half-forgive; so neither must man half-repent. Yet of its one fundamental sin, the worship of nature for God, Israel would not repent. And so, whatever they did was not that entire repentance, upon which God, in the law, had promised forgiveness; repentance which stopped short of nothing but God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 4:6. Cleanness of teeth — Scarcity of bread, as immediately explained. Ye shall have no trouble in cleaning your teeth, for ye shall have nothing to eat.

Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. — This reprehension is repeated five times in this chapter; and in it are strongly implied God's longsuffering, his various modes of fatherly chastisement, the ingratitude of the people, and their obstinate wickedness. The famine mentioned here is supposed to be that which is spoken of 2 Kings 8:1; but it is most likely to have been that mentioned by Joel, Joel 1:1-17.