Amos 8:7-14

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁷ The Lord has sworn an oath by Jacob’s pride:
“I will never forget anything that they have done.”

⁸ The land will tremble because of this.
Everyone who lives in it will mourn.
The entire land will rise like the Nile,
be tossed about, and then sink like Egypt’s river.

⁹ On that day, declares the Almighty Lord,
I will make the sun go down at noon
and darken the earth in broad daylight.
¹⁰ I will turn your festivals into funerals
and all your songs into funeral songs.
I will put sackcloth around everyone’s waist
and shave everyone’s head.
I will make that day seem like a funeral for an only child,
and its end will be bitter.

¹¹ The days are going to come, declares the Almighty Lord,
when I will send a famine throughout the land.
It won’t be an ordinary famine or drought.
Instead, there will be a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
¹² People will wander from sea to sea
and roam from the north to the east,
searching for the Lord’s word.
But they won’t find it.

¹³ On that day beautiful young women and strong young men
will faint because of their thirst.
¹⁴ ⌞How horrible it will be for⌟ those who swear by Ashimah,
the idol of Samaria, and say,
“I solemnly swear, Dan, as your god lives….”
“I solemnly swear as long as there is a road to Beersheba….”
Those who say this will fall and never get up again.