Amo 4:11 | NETfull | STEP | “I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking!

Amos 4:11

11 “I overthrew some of you the way God ^{▼▼ Several English versions substitute the first person pronoun (“I”) here for stylistic reasons (e.g., NIV, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT).} overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. ^{▼▼ 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.”} ^{▼▼ The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is described in Gen 19:1–29.}
You were like a burning stick ^{▼▼ Heb “like that which is burning.”} snatched from the flames.
Still you did not come back to me.”
The Lord is speaking!