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Amos 8:11

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"Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine on the land -- not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD.

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

We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.

Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint,[3] but blessed is he who keeps the law.

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

Disaster comes upon disaster; rumor follows rumor. They seek a vision from the prophet, while the law[10] perishes from the priest and counsel from the elders.

lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.

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

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

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. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do."

And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.

Now the young man Samuel was ministering to the LORD under Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.




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