Amos 8:10-12

The Voice

¹⁰    I will turn your celebrations into mourning
        and all your singing into wailing.
    I will make it so that all wear mourning sackcloth
        and every head is shaved out of sadness.
    It will be like the grief you feel at the death of an only child,
        and it will be a bitter day by the end.

¹¹The Eternal Lord says,

Eternal One: The days are coming
        when I will send a famine on the land—
    Not a hunger for food or thirst for water,
        but starvation for the words of the Eternal.
¹²    People will stagger from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,
        and from the north to the east;
    They will run everywhere, desperate to hear the voice of the Eternal One,
        but they will not hear it.