阿摩司书 4:11

Chinese Union (Simplified)

我 倾 覆 你 们 中 间 的 城 邑 ， 如 同 我 从 前 倾 覆 所 多 玛 、 蛾 摩 拉 一 样 ， 使 你 们 好 像 从 火 中 抽 出 来 的 一 根 柴 ； 你 们 仍 不 归 向 我 。 这 是 耶 和 华 说 的 。

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
“我傾覆你們，就像傾覆所多瑪和蛾摩拉一樣；你們像一根木柴，從火裡抽出來；但你們仍不歸向我。”這是耶和華的宣告。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as God: Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:25, Isaiah 13:19, Jeremiah 49:18, Hosea 11:8, 2 Peter 2:6, Jude 1:7

as a: Zechariah 3:2, 1 Corinthians 3:15, Jude 1:23

yet: Amos 4:6, Jeremiah 6:28-30, Ezekiel 22:17-22, Ezekiel 24:13, Revelation 9:20

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 21:18 - will not Deuteronomy 28:24 - make the rain Deuteronomy 29:23 - like the Psalms 18:8 - fire Proverbs 21:12 - overthroweth Isaiah 1:9 - we should Isaiah 7:4 - the two tails Jeremiah 20:16 - as Jeremiah 50:40 - General Ezekiel 15:4 - the fire Ezekiel 16:50 - therefore Amos 7:4 - called Luke 17:29 - General Romans 9:29 - we had been Revelation 11:8 - Sodom

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,.... Either their houses were burnt, or their bodies consumed by fire from heaven, with lightning; not whole cities, but the habitations of some particular persons, or they themselves:

and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning; some escaped such an awful calamity, their houses were not consumed, while others were; and their persons were safe, while others, just by them, were struck dead at once:

yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord; neither the judgments of God on themselves and others had any effect upon them to humble and reclaim them: such dispensations, without the grace of God is exerted, rather harden than soften; and, instead of bringing men to repentance, cause them to blaspheme; see Revelation 16:8; nor will the mercy and goodness of God, which should lead persons to repentance, attain that end, unless accompanied with the Spirit and grace of God; who, notwithstanding such mercies and deliverances, will remain senseless, stupid obdurate, and impenitent; see Revelation 9:20.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have overthrown some of you - The earthquake is probably reserved to the last, as being the rarest, and so the most special, visitation. Frequent as earthquakes have been on the borders of Palestine, the greater part of Palestine was not on the line, which was especially shaken by them. The line, chiefly visited by earthquakes, was along the coast of the Mediterranean or parallel to it, chiefly from Tyre to Antioch and Aleppo. Here were the great historical earthquakes, which were the scourges of Tyre, Sidon, Beirut, Botrys, Tripolis, Laodicea on the sea; which shattered Litho-prosopon, prostrated Baalbek and Hamath, and so often afflicted Antioch and Aleppo , while Damascus was mostly spared .

Eastward it may have reached to Safed, Tiberias, and the Hauran. Ar-Moab perished by an earthquake in the childhood of Jerome . But, at least, the evidence of earthquakes, except perhaps in the ruins of the Hauran , is slighter. Earthquakes there have been (although fewer) at Jerusalem. Yet on the whole, it seems truer to say that the skirts of Palestine were subject to destructive earthquakes, than to affirm this of central Palestine .

The earthquake must have been all the more terrible, because it was unprecedented. One or more terrible earthquakes, overthrowing cities, must have been sent, before that, on occasion of which Amos collected his prophecies. For his prophecies were uttered “two years before” that “earthquake;” and this earthquake had preceded his prophecy. “I overthrew,” God says, “among you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.” He uses the word, especially used by Moses and the prophets of that dread overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, when they were turned, as it were, upside down. The earthquake is at all times the more mysterious, because unseen, unannounced, unlooked for, instantaneous, complete. The ground under a man’s feet seems no longer secure: his shelter is his destruction; men’s houses become their graves. Whole cities must have been utterly overthrown, for He compares the overthrow worked among them, to the overthrow of “the cities of the plain.” Other visitations have heralds sent before them. War, pestilence, famine, seldom break in at once. The earthquake at once, buries, it may be, thousands or tens of thousands, each stiffened (if it were so) in that his last deed of evil; each household with its own form of misery; each in its separate vault, dead, dying, crushed, imprisoned; the remnant indeed “surviving,” for most whom they loved were gone. So he says;

And ye, who escaped, were as a firebrand, plucked out of the burning - Once it had been green, fresh, fragrant, with leaf or flower; now scorched, charred, blackened, all but consumed. In itself, it was fit for nothing, but to be cast back into the fire from where it had been rescued. Man would so deal with it. A re-creation alone could restore it. Slight emblem of a soul, whose freshness sin had withered, then God’s severe judgment had half-consumed; in itself, meet only for the everlasting fire, from which yet God withdraws it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 4:11. I have overthrown some of you — In the destruction of your cities I have shown my judgments as signally as I did in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and those of you that did escape were as "brands plucked out of the fire;" if not consumed, yet much scorched. And as the judgment was evidently from my hand, so was the deliverance; "and yet ye have not returned unto me, saith the Lord."