Amos 8:11-12

8:11 Be certain of this, ¹  the time is ²  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! ³ 

8:12 People ⁴  will stagger from sea to sea, ⁵ 

and from the north around to the east.

They will wander about looking for a revelation from ⁶  the Lord,

but they will not find any. ⁷ 

[8:11]  ¹ tn Heb “behold” or “look.”

[8:11]  ² tn Heb “the days are.”

[8:11]  ³ tn Heb “not a hunger for food or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.”

[8:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “they”; the referent (people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:12]  ⁵ tn That is, from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Dead Sea in the east – that is, across the whole land.

[8:12]  ⁶ tn Heb “looking for the word of.”

[8:12]  ⁷ tn It is not clear whether the speaker in this verse is the Lord or the prophet.