Amos 8:9

that we may buy the poor for silver,

and the needy for a pair of sandals,

and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”

The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob,

“Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Won’t the land tremble for this,

and everyone mourn who dwells in it?

Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;

and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

I will turn your feasts into mourning,

and all your songs into lamentation;

and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,

and baldness on every head.

I will make it like the mourning for an only son,

and its end like a bitter day.

Behold, the days come,” says 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 LORD’s words.

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.