Not Hunger For Bread Or Thirst For Water, But For Hearing The Word Of YAHWEH

"Hear this, you, who trample on the needy, to do away with the weak of the land.  You who say, 'When will the new moon or the Sabbath feast be over that we may open the store and sell our grain?  Let us lower the measure and raise the price; let us cheat and tamper with the scales, and even sell the refuse with the whole grain.  We will buy up the poor for money and the needy for a pair of sandals.'

YAHWEH, the pride of Jacob, has sworn by HIMSELF, 'I shall never forget their deeds.'

Shall not the land tremble because of this, and all who dwell in it mourn, while it rises up and heaves like the Nile and settles back again like the river of Egypt?

YAHWEH says, 'On that day, I will make the sun go down at noon; and darken the earth in broad daylight.

I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your singing into wailing.  Everyone will mourn, covered with sackcloth; and every head will be shaved.  I will make them mourn, as for an only son, and bring their day to a bitter end.'

YAHWEH says, 'Days are coming when I will send famine upon the land; not hunger for bread or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of YAHWEH.

Men will stagger from sea to sea, wander to and fro, from north to east, searching for the word of YAHWEH; but they will not find it...'" - Amos 8:4-12 

(Amos describes the greed of the merchants and of the rich, the exploitation of the needy, the luxury of the wealthy, the bribing of judges, etc.

Not hunger for bread or thirst for water, but for hearing the word of YAHWEH, in a little while, those who refuse to listen, because they lack nothing, will be so afflicted that they will long to hear a word of consolation from GOD, and that word will not come.  The prophet's words were to be fulfilled in several ways.  We can read into them the prediction of the hunger and thirst for GOD's word, which, in later times, would be the hallmark of the believer.)

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