Amos 8:11

Good News Translation

“The time is coming when I will send famine on the land. People will be hungry, but not for bread; they will be thirsty, but not for water. They will hunger and thirst for a message from the Lord. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel lived without the true God, without priests to teach them, and without a law.

Psalm 74:9

All our sacred symbols are gone; there are no prophets left, and no one knows how long this will last.

Proverbs 29:18

A nation without God's guidance is a nation without order. Happy are those who keep God's law!

Isaiah 5:6

I will let it be overgrown with weeds. I will not trim the vines or hoe the ground; instead, I will let briers and thorns cover it. I will even forbid the clouds to let rain fall on it.”

Ezekiel 7:26

One disaster will follow another, and a steady stream of bad news will pour in. You will beg the prophets to reveal what they foresee. The priests will have nothing to teach the people, and the elders will have no advice to give.

Hosea 2:3

If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.

Micah 3:6

“Prophets, your day is almost over; the sun is going down on you. Because you mislead my people, you will have no more prophetic visions, and you will not be able to predict anything.”

Matthew 9:36

As he saw the crowds, his heart was filled with pity for them, because they were worried and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

1 Samuel 28:15

Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me? Why did you make me come back?” Saul answered, “I am in great trouble! The Philistines are at war with me, and God has abandoned me. He doesn't answer me any more, either by prophets or by dreams. And so I have called you, for you to tell me what I must do.”

1 Samuel 28:6

and so he asked the Lord what to do. But the Lord did not answer him at all, either by dreams or by the use of Urim and Thummim or by prophets.

1 Samuel 3:1

In those days, when the boy Samuel was serving the Lord under the direction of Eli, there were very few messages from the Lord, and visions from him were quite rare.