Graphic Bible · Scene 4 of 5
Amos 4:9-11
Warnings Unheeded
Yet You Did Not Return · Amos 4
Story guide: The brand echoes the simile of rescue from burning. The image avoids turning death and disease into spectacle.
Open this scene in the reader →9I struck you with blight and mildew; your many gardens and your vineyards, your fig trees and your olive trees, the locust devoured; yet you did not return to me, declares Yahweh.
10I sent among you a plague in the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses, and I made the stench of your camps rise even into your nostrils; yet you did not return to me, declares Yahweh.
11I overthrew some among you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you became like a brand snatched from the burning; yet you did not return to me, declares Yahweh.
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