Amos 8:9–14

9 “It will come about in that day,” declares the Lord God,

“That I will make the asun go down at noon

And bmake the earth dark in 1broad daylight.

10 “Then I will aturn your festivals into mourning

And all your songs into 1lamentation;

And I will bring bsackcloth on everyone’s loins

And 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 the Lord God,

“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 the Lord.

12 “People will stagger from sea to sea

And from the north even to the east;

They will go to and fro to aseek the word of the Lord,

But they will not find it.

13 “In that day the beautiful avirgins

And the young men will bfaint from thirst.

14 “As for those who swear by the 1aguilt of Samaria,

Who say, ‘As your god lives, O bDan,’

And, ‘As the way of cBeersheba lives,’

They will fall and dnot rise again.”