And in that day, saith the Lord God, I will even cause the [a]Sun to go down at noon: I will darken the earth in the clear day.

10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning: and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the Land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.

12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the North even unto the East shall they run to and fro to seek the [b]word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:9 In the midst of their prosperity, I will send great affliction.
  2. Amos 8:12 Whereby he showeth that they shall not only perish in body, but also in soul for lack of God’s word, which is the food thereof.

11 In that day will I raise up the [a]Tabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and close up the breaches thereof, and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it, as in the days of old,

12 That they may possess the remnant of [b]Edom, and of all the heathen, because my Name is called upon them, saith the Lord, that doeth this.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 9:11 I will send the Messiah promised, and restore by him the spiritual Israel, Acts 15:16.
  2. Amos 9:12 Meaning, that the very enemies as were the Edomites, and others should be joined with the Jews in one society, and body, whereof Christ should be the head.

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