Amos 4:11

“I overthrew some of you the way God ¹  overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. ²  You were like a burning stick ³  snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking!

Ge 19:24,25; Isa 13:19; Jer 6:28-30; Jer 49:18; Eze 22:17-22; Eze 24:13; Ho 11:8; Am 4:6; Zec 3:2; 1Co 3:15; 2Pe 2:6; Jude 1:7; Jude 1:23; Re 9:20

¹ tn Several English versions substitute the first person pronoun (“I”) here for stylistic reasons (e.g., NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).

² tn Heb “like God’s overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.” The divine name may be used in an idiomatic superlative sense here, in which case one might translate, “like the great [or “disastrous”] overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.”

sn The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is described in Gen 19:1-29.

³ tn Heb “like that which is burning.”