Amos 8:11

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The time is surely coming, says the Lord God, when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law;

Psalm 74:9

We do not see our emblems; there is no longer any prophet, and there is no one among us who knows how long.

Proverbs 29:18

Where there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but happy are those who keep the law.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster comes upon disaster, rumor follows rumor; they shall keep seeking a vision from the prophet; instruction shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Hosea 2:3

or I will strip her naked and expose her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and turn her into a parched land, and kill her with thirst.

Micah 3:6

Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without revelation. The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;

Matthew 9:36

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

1 Samuel 28:15

Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams; so I have summoned you to tell me what I should do.”

1 Samuel 28:6

When Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, not by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.

1 Samuel 3:1

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.