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Amos 8:10-12
Easy-to-Read Version
Amos 8:10-12
Easy-to-Read Version
10 I will change your festivals into days of crying for the dead.
All your songs will be songs of sadness for those who are dead.
I will put mourning clothes on every body
and baldness on every head.[a]
I will cause mourning everywhere,
like that for an only son who has died.
It will be a very bitter end.”
A Famine of God’s Word
11 The Lord God says,
“Look, the days are coming
when I will cause a famine in the land.
The people will not be hungry for bread.
They will not be thirsty for water.
No, they will be hungry for words from the Lord.
12 The people will wander around the country,
from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,
and from the north part of the country to the east.
They will go back and forth looking for a message from the Lord,
but they will not find it.
Footnotes
- Amos 8:10 baldness … head People shaved their heads to show that they were very sad or upset.
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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