Amos 8:7-14

Legacy Standard Bible

⁷ Yahweh has ^(A)sworn by the ^(B)lofty pride of Jacob,
“Indeed, I will ^(C)never forget any of their works.
⁸ Because of this will not the land ^(D)tremble
And everyone who inhabits it ^(E)mourn?
Indeed, all of it will ^(F)rise up like the Nile,
And it will be tossed about
And subside like the Nile of Egypt.
⁹ And it will be in that day,” declares Lord Yahweh,
“That I will make the ^(G)sun go down at noon
And ^(H)make the earth dark in ^[a]broad daylight.
¹⁰ Then I will ^(I)overturn your feasts into mourning
And all your songs into ^[b]lamentation;
And I will bring up ^(J)sackcloth on everyone’s loins
And baldness on every head.
And I will make it ^(K)like a time of mourning for an only son,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

¹¹ “Behold, days are coming,” declares Lord Yahweh,
“When I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water,
But rather ^(L)for hearing the words of Yahweh.
¹² People will wander from sea to sea
And from the north even to the east;
They will go to and fro to ^(M)seek the word of Yahweh,
But they will not find it.
¹³ In that day the beautiful ^(N)virgins
And the choice men will ^(O)faint from thirst.
¹⁴ As for those who swear by the ^[c](P)guilt of Samaria,
Who say, ‘As your god lives, O ^(Q)Dan,’
And, ‘As the way of ^(R)Beersheba lives,’
They will fall and ^(S)not rise again.”