Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation "The time is coming when I will send famine on the land. People will be hungry, but not for bread; they will be thirsty, but not for water. They will hunger and thirst for a message from the LORD. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day. but. 1 Samuel 3:1 Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no manifest vision. 1 Samuel 28:6,15 And he consulted the Lord, and he answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets. . . . Psalm 74:9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more. Isaiah 5:6 And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it. Isaiah 30:20,21 And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher. . . . Ezekiel 7:26 Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour, and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. Micah 3:6 Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him. Matthew 9:36 And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd. Context The Basket of Ripe Fruit…10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light: 11And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring up sackcloth upon every back of yours, and baldness upon every head: and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the latter end thereof as a bitter day.12Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send forth a famine into the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.… Cross References 1 Samuel 3:1 Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no manifest vision. 2 Chronicles 15:3 And many days shall pass in Israel, without the true God, and without a priest a teacher, and without the law. Psalm 74:9 Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more. Proverbs 29:18 When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad: but he that keepeth the law, is blessed. Isaiah 30:20 And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher. Ezekiel 7:26 Trouble shall come upon trouble, and rumour upon rumour, and they shall seek a vision of the prophet, and the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. Hosea 2:3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born: and I will make her as a wilderness, and will set her as a land that none can pass through and will kill her with drought. Micah 3:6 Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him. Jump to Previous Affirmation Bread Declares Desire Famine Food Great Hearing Need Rather Sovereign Thirst Times Water WordsJump to Next Affirmation Bread Declares Desire Famine Food Great Hearing Need Rather Sovereign Thirst Times Water WordsLinks Amos 8:11 NIVAmos 8:11 NLT Amos 8:11 ESV Amos 8:11 NASB Amos 8:11 Bible Apps Amos 8:11 Biblia Paralela Amos 8:11 Chinese Bible Amos 8:11 French Bible Amos 8:11 German Bible Alphabetical: a are Behold bread but coming days declares famine food for GOD hearing I land LORD not of on or rather send Sovereign The thirst through water when will words OT Prophets: Amos 8:11 Behold the days come says the Lord (Amo. Am) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |