Amos 2:11-12

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¹¹“I also raised up prophets^(A) from among your children
and Nazirites^(B) from among your youths.
Is this not true, people of Israel?”
declares the Lord.
¹²“But you made the Nazirites drink wine
and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.^(C)

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Amos 6:10

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¹⁰And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them^[a]^(A) asks anyone who might be hiding there, “Is anyone else with you?” and he says, “No,” then he will go on to say, “Hush!^(B) We must not mention the name of the Lord.”

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Footnotes

Amos 6:10 Or to make a funeral fire in honor of the dead

Amos 6:10 in all English translations

Amos 8:11-12

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¹¹“The days are coming,”^(A) 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^(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.^(C)
¹²People 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.^(D)