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Amos 8:10-12
Amplified Bible
Amos 8:10-12
Amplified Bible
10
“And I shall turn your festivals and feasts into mourning
And all your songs into dirges (funeral poems to be sung);
And I shall cause sackcloth to be put on everyone’s [a]loins
And baldness on every head [shaved for mourning].
And I shall make that time like a time of mourning for an only son [who has died],
And the end of it shall be like a bitter day.
11
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“When I will send hunger over the land,
Not hunger for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather [a hunger] for hearing the words of the Lord.
12
“People shall stagger from sea to sea [to the very ends of the earth]
And from the north even to the east;
They will roam here and there to seek the word of the Lord [longing for it as essential for life],
But they will not find it.
Footnotes
- Amos 8:10 The midsection of the body between the lower ribs and the thighs.
Amos 8:10-12
New International Version
Amos 8:10-12
New International Version
10 I will turn your religious festivals(A) into mourning
and all your singing into weeping.(B)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth(C)
and shave(D) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son(E)
and the end of it like a bitter day.(F)
11 “The days are coming,”(G) declares the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
but a famine(H) of hearing the words of the Lord.(I)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
but they will not find it.(J)
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