Amos 8:11
Be certain of this, the time is coming,” says the Sovereign LORD,“when I will send a famine through the land– not a shortage of food or water but an end to divine revelation!
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Referenced Verses
- 1 Sam 3:1 : 1 The Call of Samuel Now the boy Samuel continued serving the LORD under Eli’s supervision. Receiving a message from the LORD was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.
- Ps 74:9 : 9 We do not see any signs of God’s presence; there are no longer any prophets and we have no one to tell us how long this will last.
- 1 Sam 28:6 : 6 So Saul inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him– not by dreams nor by Urim nor by the prophets.
- Ezek 7:26 : 26 Disaster after disaster will come, and one rumor after another. They will seek a vision from a prophet; priestly instruction will disappear, along with counsel from the elders.
- Mic 3:6 : 6 Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.
- 2 Chr 15:3 : 3 For a long time Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law.
- Matt 9:36 : 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were bewildered and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
- 1 Sam 28:15 : 15 Samuel said to Saul,“Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul replied,“I am terribly troubled! The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He does not answer me anymore– not by the prophets nor by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what I should do.”
- Isa 5:6 : 6 I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.
- Isa 30:20-21 : 20 The Lord will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them. 21 You will hear a word spoken behind you, saying,“This is the correct way, walk in it,” whether you are heading to the right or the left.
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12People will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north around to the east. They will wander about looking for a message from the LORD, but they will not find any.
13In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.
- Amos 8:9-102 verses76%
9In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,“I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.
10I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.
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8The LORD’s message came to me:
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21The LORD’s message came to me:
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12The LORD’s message came to me:
13“Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.
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1A Lament over the Ravages of Drought This was the LORD’s message to Jeremiah about the drought.
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17The LORD’s message came to me:
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15Ezekiel’s Wife Dies The LORD’s message came to me:
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17The oppressed and the poor look for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched from thirst. I, the LORD, will respond to their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not abandon them.
- Jer 14:12-132 verses74%
12Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.”
13Then I said,“Oh, Sovereign LORD, look! The prophets are telling them that you said,‘You will not experience war or suffer famine. I will give you lasting peace and prosperity in this land.’”
- Ezek 4:16-172 verses73%
16Then he said to me,“Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
17because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
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1The Sword of Judgment(21:6) The LORD’s message came to me:
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4Listen to this, you who trample the needy, and do away with the destitute in the land.
- Joel 1:15-173 verses73%
15How awful that day will be! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.
16Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!
17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.
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17When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,
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8Then the LORD’s message came to me,
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16I will shoot against them deadly, destructive arrows of famine, which I will shoot to destroy you. I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply.
17I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken!”
- Jer 14:15-162 verses73%
15I did not send those prophets, though they claim to be prophesying in my name. They may be saying,‘No war or famine will happen in this land.’ But I, the LORD, say this about them:‘War and starvation will kill those prophets.’
16The people to whom they are prophesying will die through war and famine. Their bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem and there will be no one to bury them. This will happen to the men and their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out on them the destruction they deserve.”
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1False Prophets Denounced Then the LORD’s message came to me:
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21They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.
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1A Prophecy Against False Shepherds The LORD’s message came to me:
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1Individual Retribution The LORD’s message came to me:
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11Then LORD’s message came to me:
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23The LORD’s message came to me:
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1A Parable of Two Eagles and a Vine The LORD’s message came to me:
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19Then say to the people of the land,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.
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1Previewing the Exile The LORD’s message came to me:
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13I will take away their harvests, says the LORD. There will be no grapes on their vines. There will be no figs on their fig trees. Even the leaves on their trees will wither. The crops that I gave them will be taken away.’”
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1A Coming Leadership Crisis Look, the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah every source of security, including all the food and water,
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9The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.
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31The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.
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6“But surely I gave you no food to eat in all your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!
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2He said,“What do you see, Amos?” I replied,“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the LORD said to me,“The end has come for my people Israel! I will no longer overlook their sins.
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11So I, the LORD, say this:‘I will soon bring disaster on them which they will not be able to escape! When they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.
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15Look at what they are saying to me,“Where are the events in the LORD’s message? Let’s see them happen, please!”
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8The LORD’s message came to me in the morning:
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4The LORD my God says this:“Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.
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8As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,
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8I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
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10The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.
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1Jeremiah Forbidden to Marry, to Mourn, or to Feast The LORD’s message came to me,