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Amos 4:6

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“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says the LORD.

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Verse 6. Dulness, (stuporem) as when the teeth have bitten at a stone ( Bible.) and are edged. Jeremiah 31:29. Septuagint “gnashing.” Hebrew “cleanness,” through want of food. Eliseus foretold a famine under Achab. 4 Kennicott. 8:1. That of Joel (1) seems to have happened later than this. Calmet.—God sent these afflictions for their amendment. Worthington.

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