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12 People will stumble from sea to sea
    and from north to east.
    They will roam back and forth seeking the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.
13 On that day the beautiful virgins will faint,
    and the young men will grow weak from thirst.
14 Those who swear by the shameful guilt[a] of Samaria,
    those who say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
    or, “The way of Beersheba lives”—
    they will fall, and they will never rise again.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:14 Possibly a distortion of the name of the goddess Ashima/Asherah