Amos 8:12

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

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10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

11 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

12 People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

13 In that day the lovely young women— the young men as well— will faint from thirst.

14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’— they will fall, never to rise again.”

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Amos 8:12 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
KJV King James Version: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
WEB World English Bible: They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek the LORD’s word, and will not find it.
ASV American Standard Version: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: And they have wandered from sea unto sea, And from north even unto east, They go to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, And they do not find.
DBY Darby Translation: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.
WBS Webster Bible: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it .