阿摩司书 4:7

Chinese Union (Simplified)

在 收 割 的 前 三 月 ， 我 使 雨 停 止 ， 不 降 在 你 们 那 里 ； 我 降 雨 在 这 城 ， 不 降 雨 在 那 城 ； 这 块 地 有 雨 ， 那 块 地 无 雨 ； 无 雨 的 就 枯 乾 了 。

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
“我曾在收割前三個月，不降雨給你們；我降雨給一個城，在另一個城卻不降雨；我在一塊地降雨，另一塊地沒有雨水就枯乾了。

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have: Leviticus 26:18-21, Leviticus 26:23, Leviticus 26:24, Leviticus 26:27, Leviticus 26:28, Deuteronomy 28:23, Deuteronomy 28:24, 1 Kings 8:35, 1 Kings 8:36, 2 Chronicles 7:13, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Isaiah 5:6, Jeremiah 3:3, Jeremiah 5:24, Jeremiah 5:25, Jeremiah 14:4, Jeremiah 14:22, Haggai 1:10, Haggai 1:11, Zechariah 14:17, James 5:17, Revelation 11:6

when: Joel 2:23, John 4:35

and I: Exodus 8:22, Exodus 9:4, Exodus 9:26, Exodus 10:23, Judges 6:37-40, 1 Corinthians 4:7

and the: Joel 1:10-18

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:4 - For Exodus 7:23 - neither Leviticus 26:4 - Then I Deuteronomy 11:17 - shut up 1 Kings 18:1 - I will send rain Job 5:10 - giveth Job 28:26 - he made Job 37:12 - it Job 38:28 - Hath the Psalms 107:33 - watersprings Isaiah 30:23 - shall he Joel 1:16 - the meat Amos 1:2 - the habitations Zechariah 10:1 - rain in John 19:13 - and sat

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And also I have withholden the rain from you,.... As he did for the space of three years successively in the days of Ahab, as predicted by Elijah, 1 Kings 17:1; the consequences of which are very bad to men and beast, and bring on a scarcity of food for both, and a famine if long withheld:

when [there were] yet three months to the harvest; that is, three months before the harvest, as Jarchi; when, as Kimchi observes, there was need of rain: this was the latter rain which was usually given and expected about this time, and on which the goodness of the crop, and so of the harvest, greatly depended; these three months before barley harvest were December, January, and February, that being in March; and before the wheat harvest, February, March, and April, that being in May usually:

and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city; so that it might appear to be not by the course of nature, or through the influence of the planets, or by chance; but was according to the direction of divine Providence, the hand of God was manifestly in it: yea,

one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered; one piece of ground or field had a plentiful shower on it, whereby it became fruitful; and another field or close on the other side of the hedge or partition had none, whereby what did spring up withered away and came to nothing: or "one inheritance" u, or farm, as some render it; one man's estate was well watered with rain from heaven, and brought forth much fruit; and another man's estate, for want of it, was barren, and brought forth nothing: thus God was pleased to do in his providence, to show his sovereignty, and to chastise men for their sins; and in such a manner as that they might, if not blind easily perceive his hand in it.

u חלקה "fundus", Mercerus, Vatablus; "hereditas", Targum.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And I, I too have withholden the rain - Jerome, dwelling in Palestine, says, that “this rain, when “three months yet remained until harvest,” was the “latter rain,” of the very greatest necessity for the fields of Palestine and the thirsty ground, lest, when the blade is swelling into the crop, and gendering the wheat, it should dry up through lack of moisture. The time intended is the spring, at the end of April, whence, to the wheat-harvest, there remain three months, May, June, July.” “God withheld the rain that they might endure, not only lack of bread, but burning thirst and penury of drink also. For in these places, where we now live, all the water, except small fountains, is of cisterns; and if the wrath of God should withhold the rain, there is greater peril of thirst than of hunger, such its Scripture relates to have endured for three years and six months in the days of the prophet Elijah. And lest they should think that this had befallen their cities and people, by a law of nature, or the influence of the stars, or the variety of the seasons, He says, that He rained upon one city and its fields, and from another withheld the rain.”

This was a second visitation of God. First, a general famine, “in all their cities;” secondly, a discriminating visitation. “Nature” possesses no discrimination or power over her supplies. Seeming waste is one of the mysteries of God in nature, “to cause it to rain on the earth” Job 38:26 where “no man” is; on “the wilderness wherein” there, “is no man.” Ordinarily too, God “maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust” Matthew 5:45. But God does not enslave Himself, (as people would have it) to His own laws. Amos appeals to them, that God had dealt with them, not according to His ordinary laws; that not only God had given to one city the rain which he had withheld from another, but that He had made the same difference as to smaller “pieces” of ground, the inherited “portions” of individuals . Some such variations have been observed in Palestine now. But this would have been no indication of God’s Providence, had not the consciences of people responded to the prophet’s appeal, and recognized that the rain had been given or withheld according to the penitence or impenitence, the deeper or more mitigated idolatry, the greater or less sinfulness of the people. We have. then, in these few words a law of God’s dealing with Israel. God, in His word, reveals to us the meaning of His daily variations in the workings of nature; yet, hardly even in such instances, as people can scarcely elude, do they think of God the Creator, rather than of nature, His creation.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 4:7. When there were yet three months to the harvest — St. Jerome says, from the end of April, when the latter rain falls, until harvest, there are three months, May, June, and July, in which no rain falls in Judea. The rain, therefore, that God had withheld from them, was that which was usual in the spring months, particularly in April.

I caused it to rain upon one city — To prove to them that this rain did not come fortuitously or of necessity, God was pleased to make these most evident distinctions. One city had rain, and could fill all its tanks or cisterns, while a neighbouring city had none. One farm or field was well watered, and abundant in its crops, while one contiguous to it had not a shower. In these instances a particular providence was most evident. "And yet, they did not return to the Lord."