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Amos 8:9-13

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9“And it will come about on that day,” declares the Lord God,

“That I will make the sun go down at noon,

And make the earth dark in broad daylight.

10“Then I will turn your festivals into mourning,

And all your songs into songs of mourning;

And I will put sackcloth around everyone’s waist,

And baldness on every head.

And I will make it like 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 of bread or a thirst for water,

But rather for hearing the words of the Lord.

12“People will stagger from sea to sea

And from the north even to the east;

They will roam about to seek the word of the Lord,

But they will not find it.

13“On that day the beautiful virgins

And the young men will faint from thirst.