Amos 8:7-14 — Legacy Standard Bible

⁷Yahweh has ^asworn by the ^blofty pride of Jacob,“Indeed, I will ^cnever forget any of their works.⁸“Because of this will not the land ^atrembleAnd everyone who inhabits it ^bmourn?Indeed, all of it will ^crise up like the Nile,And it will be tossed aboutAnd subside like the Nile of Egypt.⁹“And it will be in that day,” declares Lord Yahweh,“That I will make the ^asun go down at noonAnd ^bmake the earth dark in ¹broad daylight.¹⁰“Then I will ^aoverturn your feasts into mourningAnd all your songs into ¹lamentation;And I will bring up ^bsackcloth on everyone’s loinsAnd baldness on every head.And I will make it ^clike 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 ^afor hearing the words of Yahweh.¹²“People will wander from sea to seaAnd from the north even to the east;They will go to and fro to ^aseek the word of Yahweh,But they will not find it.¹³“In that day the beautiful ^avirginsAnd the choice men will ^bfaint from thirst.¹⁴“As for those who swear by the ¹^,^aguilt of Samaria,Who say, ‘As your god lives, O ^bDan,’And, ‘As the way of ^cBeersheba lives,’They will fall and ^dnot rise again.”