New English Translation

Amos 8:10-14 New English Translation (NET)

10. I will turn your festivals into funerals,and all your songs into funeral dirges.I will make everyone wear funeral clothesand 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.

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 waterbut an end to divine revelation!

12. People will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north around to the east. They will wander about looking for a revelation from the Lord, but they will not find any.

13. In that day your beautiful young women and your young men will faint from thirst.

14. These are the ones who now take oaths in the name of the sinful idol goddess of Samaria. They vow, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or ‘As surely as your beloved one lives, O Beer Sheba!’ But they will fall down and not get up again.”