11 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when (A)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    (B)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 (C)They shall wander from sea to sea,
    and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
    (D)but they shall not find it.

13 (E)“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
    shall (F)faint for thirst.
14 Those who swear by (G)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As (H)the Way of (I)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”

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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)
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.(D)

13 “In that day

“the lovely young women and strong young men(E)
    will faint because of thirst.(F)
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria(G)
    who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’(H)
    or, ‘As surely as the god[a] of Beersheba(I) lives’—
    they will fall,(J) never to rise again.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:14 Hebrew the way