Amos 8:7-14

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⁷The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob:^(A) “I will never forget^(B) anything they have done.^(C)

⁸“Will not the land tremble^(D) for this,
    and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
    it will be stirred up and then sink
    like the river of Egypt.^(E)

⁹“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.^(F)
¹⁰I will turn your religious festivals^(G) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.^(H)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth^(I)
    and shave^(J) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son^(K)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.^(L)

¹¹“The days are coming,”^(M) 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^(N) of hearing the words of the Lord.^(O)
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.^(P)

¹³“In that day

“the lovely young women and strong young men^(Q)
    will faint because of thirst.^(R)
¹⁴Those who swear by the sin of Samaria^(S)—
    who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’^(T)
    or, ‘As surely as the god^[a] of Beersheba^(U) lives’—
    they will fall,^(V) never to rise again.^(W)”