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Amos 8:10-12
The Voice
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.
11 The 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.
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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