11Behold, 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:
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 11-14)In these verses is threatened, I. A general judgment of spiritual famine coming upon the whole land, a famine of the word of God , the failing of oracles and the scarcity of good preaching. This is spoken of as a thing at some distance: The days come , they will come hereafter, when another kind of darkness shall come upon that land of light. When Amos prophesied, and for a considerable time after...
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