Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Amos 8:11

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

KJV

Ecce dies veniunt, dicet Dominus, et mittam famem in terram : non famem panis, neque sitim aquæ, sed audiendi verbum Domini.

Vulgate

ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, λέγει Κύριος, καὶ ἐξαποστελῶ λιμὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, οὐ λιμὸν ἄρτων οὐδὲ δίψαν ὕδατος, ἀλλὰ λιμὸν τοῦ ἀκοῦσαι λόγον Κύριου·

LXX

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.

ASV

הִנֵּ֣ה יָמִ֣ים בָּאִ֗ים נְאֻם֙ אֲדֹנָ֣/י יְהוִ֔ה וְ/הִשְׁלַחְתִּ֥י רָעָ֖ב בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ לֹֽא רָעָ֤ב לַ/לֶּ֨חֶם֙ וְ/לֹֽא צָמָ֣א לַ/מַּ֔יִם כִּ֣י אִם לִ/שְׁמֹ֔עַ אֵ֖ת דִּבְרֵ֥י יְהוָֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

19 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
הִנֵּ֥ה
hnh
pronoun · 838×
י
y
noun · 440×
יְהוִ֔ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 305×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֶ֣חֶם
lchm
noun · 297×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
נְאֻם
n'm
noun · 374×
נִי
ny
verb · 838×
צָּמָֽא
tsm'
noun · 17×
רָעָ֖ב
r'b
noun · 101×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2835This petition, with the responsibility it involves, also applies to another hunger from which men are perishing: "Man does not live by bread alone, but . . . by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God,"123 that is, by the Word he speaks and the Spirit he breathes forth. Christians must make every effort "to proclaim the good news to the poor." There is a famine on earth,…
2. But what is this vestibule? The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of Abraham. What do you say? Did you not promise to discourse of the Only-begotten Son of God, and do you make mention of David, a man born after a thousand generations, and say that he is both father and ancestor? Stay, seek not to learn all at once, but gently and little by little. Wh…
1. The blessed Paul wishes to show in the next place that this covenant is far better than the old. This then he does by first laying down remote considerations. For inasmuch as there was nothing bodily or that made a show, no temple for instance, nor Holy of Holies, nor Priest with so great apparel, no legal observances, but all things higher and more perfect, and there was no…
1. Let us hear the oracles of God with fear, with fear and much trembling. For (it is said) Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice unto Him with trembling. Psalm 2:11 But if even our joy and our exultation ought to be with trembling, of what punishment are we not worthy, if we listen not with terror to what is said, when the things spoken, as now, are themselves fearful? For hav…

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 3:1 — And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
  • 1Sam 3:1 — And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
  • 1Sam 28:6 — And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
  • 1Sam 28:15 — And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no
  • 2Chr 15:3 — Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
  • Ezek 3:26 — And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezek 7:26 — Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
  • Hos 2:3 — Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
  • Isa 5:6 — And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
  • Isa 30:20 — And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
  • Isa 30:20 — And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
  • Isa 41:17 — When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
  • John 7:37 — In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
  • Lam 2:9 — Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
  • Matt 5:6 — Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
  • Matt 9:36 — But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
  • Matt 12:43 — When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
  • Mic 3:6 — Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over
  • Mic 3:7 — Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
  • Prov 29:18 — Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
  • Ps 74:9 — We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
  • Ps 74:9 — We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.