Amos 8:10-12

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁰I 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.

¹¹The 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.
¹²People 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.