Amos 8:7-14
Holman Christian Standard Bible
7 The Lord has sworn(A) by the Pride of Jacob:[a](B)
I will never forget all their deeds.(C)
8 Because of this, won’t the land quake(D)
and all who dwell in it mourn?(E)
All of it will rise like the Nile;(F)
it will surge and then subside
like the Nile in Egypt.(G)
9 And in that day—
this is the declaration of the Lord God—
I will make the sun go down at noon;(H)
I will darken the land in the daytime.(I)
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning(J)
and all your songs into lamentation;(K)
I will cause everyone[b] to wear sackcloth(L)
and every head to be shaved.(M)
I will make that grief
like mourning for an only son(N)
and its outcome like a bitter day.
11 Hear this! The days are coming—
this is the declaration of the Lord God—
when I will send a famine through the land:
not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words of the Lord.(O)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
and roam from north to east,
seeking the word of the Lord,(P)
but they will not find it.
13 In that day the beautiful young women,(Q)
the young men also, will faint from thirst.(R)
14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria(S)
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”(T)
or “As the way[c][d] of Beer-sheba lives”(U)—
they will fall, never to rise again.(V)
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