Amos 8:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

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  • 1 Sam 3:1 : 1 And the child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no widespread vision.
  • Ps 74:9 : 9 We do not see our signs: there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any who knows how long.
  • 1 Sam 28:6 : 6 And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
  • Ezek 7:26 : 26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor upon rumor; then shall they seek a vision from the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
  • Mic 3:6 : 6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
  • 2 Chr 15:3 : 3 Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
  • Matt 9:36 : 36 But when he saw the crowds, he was moved with compassion for them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
  • 1 Sam 28:15 : 15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disturbed me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am in great distress; for the Philistines make war against me, and God has departed from me and does not answer me anymore, neither by prophets nor by dreams. Therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
  • Isa 30:20-21 : 20 And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers shall not be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers: 21 And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.

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    12And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

    13In that day the beautiful virgins and young men shall faint for thirst.

  • Amos 8:9-10
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    9And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight:

    10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all waists, and baldness upon every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

  • Ezek 21:8
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    8Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 12:21
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    21The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 14:12-13
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    12The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

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  • Jer 14:1
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    1The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

  • Ezek 12:17
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  • Ezek 24:15
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    15Also the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Isa 41:17
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    17When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

  • Jer 14:12-13
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    12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

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  • Ezek 4:16-17
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    16Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

    17That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.

  • Ezek 21:1
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    1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Joel 1:15-17
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    15Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty it shall come.

    16Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God?

    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Hab 3:17
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    17Though the fig tree shall not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.

  • Jer 13:8
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    8Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 5:16-17
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    16When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

    17So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon you. I the LORD have spoken it.

  • Jer 14:15-16
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    15Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who prophesy in My name, and I have not sent them, yet they say, 'Sword and famine shall not be in this land'—by sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed.

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    1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • Isa 8:21
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    21And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

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    1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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    23And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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  • Ezek 12:19
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  • Jer 8:13
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    9In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.

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