Amos 8:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

And 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.

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  • 2 Tim 3:6-7 : 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and lead captive gullible women loaded with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • Matt 24:23-26 : 23 Then if anyone says to you, Look, here is Christ, or there, do not believe it. 24 For false Christs and false prophets will arise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25 Behold, I have told you beforehand. 26 Therefore if they say to you, Look, he is in the desert, do not go out; or, Look, he is in the inner rooms, do not believe it.
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 A scorner seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.
  • Matt 11:25-27 : 25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes. 26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight. 27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son will reveal him.
  • Rom 9:31-33 : 31 But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense; and whoever believes on Him shall not be put to shame.
  • Rom 11:7-9 : 7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. 8 According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this day. 9 And David says, Let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a recompense to them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and bend their backs always.
  • Matt 12:30 : 30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that does not gather with me scatters abroad.
  • Dan 12:4 : 4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, even until the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 8:11
    83%

    11Behold, 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:

  • Amos 8:13
    78%

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

  • Hos 5:6
    78%

    6They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.

  • Ezek 34:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became food for all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.

    6My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yes, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none searched or sought after them.

  • Isa 8:20-22
    3 verses
    75%

    20To the law and to the testimony: if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

    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.

    22And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Prov 1:28
    75%

    28Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

  • Ezek 7:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

    26Mischief 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.

  • Ps 107:4
    73%

    4They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to live in.

  • Jer 5:13
    73%

    13And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

  • Zeph 1:6
    73%

    6And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.

  • Jer 17:15
    72%

    15Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now.

  • Jer 14:16
    72%

    16And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; they will have no one to bury them—neither them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

  • Isa 5:30
    72%

    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • Ps 59:15
    72%

    15Let them wander up and down for food, and grumble if they are not satisfied.

  • Isa 13:14
    72%

    14And it will be as the hunted roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: every man will turn to his own people, and everyone will flee to his own land.

  • Isa 34:16
    72%

    16Seek out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my mouth has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them.

  • Zech 7:14
    72%

    14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate.

  • Job 30:3
    71%

    3For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness in former times desolate and waste.

  • Hos 4:3
    71%

    3Therefore the land shall mourn, and everyone that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; yes, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.

  • Ezek 34:12
    71%

    12As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

  • Amos 5:4
    71%

    4For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek me, and you shall live:

  • Amos 4:8
    71%

    8So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.

  • Jer 14:18
    71%

    18If I go out to the field, then behold, those slain with the sword; and if I enter the city, then behold, those sick from famine! Yes, both prophet and priest roam about in a land they do not know.

  • Isa 41:17
    71%

    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 9:13
    71%

    13And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

  • Jer 29:13
    71%

    13And you will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

  • Jer 10:21
    71%

    21For the pastors have become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

  • Jer 25:32
    71%

    32Thus says the LORD of hosts, Behold, disaster shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the farthest parts of the earth.

  • Jer 6:10
    71%

    10To whom shall I speak and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ears are uncircumcised, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

  • Hab 3:17
    71%

    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 50:3
    71%

    3For out of the north a nation comes against her, which shall make her land desolate, and no one shall dwell therein: they shall move away, they shall depart, both man and beast.

  • Hos 8:7
    71%

    7For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal. If it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

  • Jer 9:10
    71%

    10For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

  • Isa 55:6
    71%

    6Seek the LORD while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.

  • Jer 6:16
    70%

    16Thus says the LORD, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.

  • Mic 7:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12In that day also he shall come to you from Assyria, and from the fortified cities, and from the fortress even to the river, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

    13Yet the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

  • Zeph 1:12
    70%

    12And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men who are settled in complacency: that say in their heart, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will He do evil.'

  • Jer 9:16
    70%

    16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

  • Jer 12:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.

    12The destroyers have come upon all the high places in the wilderness; for the sword of the LORD shall devour from one end of the land even to the other end of the land; no flesh shall have peace.

  • Zech 2:6
    70%

    6Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, says the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of heaven, says the LORD.

  • Jer 2:10
    70%

    10For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there has been such a thing.

  • Jer 14:10
    70%

    10Thus says the LORD to this people, 'Thus they have loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish their sins.'

  • Zech 8:21
    70%

    21And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go quickly to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.

  • Isa 5:13
    70%

    13Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.