“‘I sent among you
A pestilence,
After the manner
Of Egypt.
I killed
Your young men
With the sword.
I carried away
Your horses.
I made the stench
Of your camp go up
Into your nostrils.
Yet you did not
Return to me,’
Says Yahweh.”
Amos has another oracle of Yahweh that picked up on the same theme of devastation, but still with no return to Yahweh. He sent a pestilence, like the Egyptian plagues in Exodus, chapters 7-11. Yahweh killed their young men with the sword. He took away their horses. He made them smell the stink of their own camp. Despite all this, the northern kingdom Israelites refused to return to Yahweh.