Amos 8:12
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
11 Behold, the 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 a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
13 In that day the lovely young women— the young men as well— will faint from thirst.
14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’— they will fall, never to rise again.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the LORD’s word, and will not find it.
- ASV
- 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 Jehovah, and shall not find it.
- DARBY
- And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.
- BLB
- And they will wander from sea to sea, and they will roam about from the north to the east, seeking the word of YHWH, and they will not find [it].
- ÅB
- Da skal de vanke om fra hav til hav og fra nord til øst; de skal flakke omkring og søke etter Herrens ord, men de skal ikke finne det.
- OTB
- Folk vil vandre fra hav til hav
og reise fra nord til øst,
søke Herrens ord,
men de vil ikke finne det. - B1930
- Da skal de vanke om fra hav til hav og fra nord til øst; de skal flakke omkring og søke efter Herrens ord, men de skal ikke finne det.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 11:7–10
What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
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A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
Read in contextMatthew 12:30
He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
Read in contextDaniel 12:4
But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
Read in contextMatthew 24:23–26
At that time, if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There He is!’ do not believe it.
Read in contextRomans 9:31–33
but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
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