Amos 8:10-12

New International Reader's Version

¹⁰I will turn your holy feasts into times for mourning.
    I will turn all your songs into weeping.
You will have to wear the clothing of sadness.
    You will shave your heads.
I will make you mourn as if your only son had died.
    The end of that time will be like a bitter day.”

¹¹The Lord and King announces,

“The days are coming
    when I will send hunger through the land.
But people will not be hungry for food.
    They will not be thirsty for water.
Instead, they will be hungry
    to hear a message from me.
¹²People will wander from the Dead Sea to the Mediterranean.
    They will travel from north to east.
They will look for a message from me.
    But they will not find it.