“‘I gave you cleanness
Of teeth
In all your cities.
I gave you
Lack of bread
In all your places.
Yet you did not
Return to me.’
Says Yahweh.”
Amos has this little Yahweh oracle poem show that Yahweh gave the Israelites clean teeth, indicating a famine. The next line showed that he had produced a lack of food in various places. However, despite this famine or food deprivation, these Israelites still did not return to Yahweh.
