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11 Look, the days are coming,” declares[a] my Lord Yahweh, “when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread and not a thirst for water, but of hearing[b] the words of Yahweh! 12 And they will wander from sea to sea and from the north and to the east. They will roam about to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find it! 13 In that day the beautiful young women and the young men will faint because of thirst.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:11 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Amos 8:11 Literally “but if to hear”

11 “The days are coming,”(A) 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(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.(C)
12 People 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.(D)

13 “In that day

“the lovely young women and strong young men(E)
    will faint because of thirst.(F)

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