Amos 8:7-14

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⁷The Lord has sworn by ^(A)the pride of Jacob:
“Surely ^(B)I will never forget any of their deeds.
⁸^(C)Shall not the land tremble on this account,
and everyone mourn who dwells in it,
^(D)and all of it rise like the Nile,
and be tossed about ^(E)and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?”

⁹“And on that day,” declares the Lord God,
    ^(F)“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
¹⁰^(G)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
^(H)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    ^(I)and baldness on every head;
^(J)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

¹¹“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when ^(K)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    ^(L)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
¹²^(M)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,
    ^(N)but they shall not find it.

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