Amos 8:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 See, days are coming—oracle of the Lord God—
when I will send a famine upon the land:
Not a hunger for bread, or a thirst for water,
but for hearing the word of the Lord.
12 They shall stagger from sea to sea
and wander from north to east
In search of the word of the Lord,
but they shall not find it.(A)
13 On that day, beautiful young women and young men
shall faint from thirst,
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