SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:9
Os herí con viento solano y oruga; vuestros muchos huertos y vuestras viñas, y vuestros higuerales y vuestros olivares comió la langosta; pero nunca os tornasteis a mí, dijo el SEÑOR.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Amos 4:9
Verse 9. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew] He sent blasting and mildew on the crops, and the locust on the gardens, vineyards, and fields; and this in such a way as to show it was a Divine judgment. They saw this; "yet they did not return to the Lord!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew , etc.] “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. “Mildew” is a kind of clammy dew, which falling upon corn, etc. corrupts and destroys by its moisture; and is a kind of jaundice to the fruits of the earth; and has its name as that, from yellowness, in the Hebrew language: when the Lord is said to smite them with these the sense is, that he sent these upon the fruits of their gardens, fields and vineyards, which consumed them: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmer worm devoured [them] ; just when they were budding and blossoming, and bringing forth fruit; and so what the blasting and mildew did not consume, that the palmer worm, a kind of locust, did; which has its name from its biting and cutting off the leaves and branches of trees, as of those mentioned vines, olives and fig trees, with which the land of Canaan abounded, the cutting off which was a great calamity. The Targum is, “the multitude of your gardens, etc. the palmer worm hath eaten:” yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord ; this dispensation of Providence was also without its desired fruit and effect; (see Gill on “ Amos 4:6”).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-13 - See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labour for that whic satisfies not; yet, after all, they will not incline their ear to Hi in whom they might find all they can want. Preaching the gospel is a rain, and every thing withers where this rain is wanting. It were wel if people were as wise for their souls as they are for their bodies and, when they have not this rain near, would go and seek it where it is to be had. As the Israelites persisted in rebellion and idolatry the Lord was coming against them as an adversary. Ere long, we mus meet our God in judgment; but we shall not be able to stand before him if he tries us according to our doings. If we would prepare to meet ou God with comfort, at the awful period of his coming, we must now mee him in Christ Jesus, the eternal Son of the Father, who came to sav lost sinners. We must seek him while he is to be found __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
הכיתי 5221 אתכם 853 בשׁדפון 7711 ובירקון 3420 הרבות 7235 גנותיכם 1593 וכרמיכם 3754 ותאניכם 8384 וזיתיכם 2132 יאכל 398 הגזם 1501 ולא 3808 שׁבתם 7725 עדי 5704 נאם 5002 יהוה׃ 3068
