...— "Thy words were found, and I did eat them." Jer. xv. 16; — " 1 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." Amos viii. 1 1 ; — " Come [Wisdom speaks] eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled."...

...day. Such a mourning will I cause amongst you, as when a mother mourns for her only son. VIII. 11. Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD. Not a famine of material bread, &c. but a spiritual famine of the word of God, which is only able to...

...by the prophet, " 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." (Amos viii. 11.) Here there is no defect or scarcity of bread and water — of the good and truth of...

..." Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that Amos vi«. 1i. 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." Again, by Isaiah, " Therefore, thus saith the Isaiah irv. is. Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat,...

...Amos, viii. 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 ;" also ix. 8, 9. Upon reading these chapters, I was again more powerfully struck with the 9th verse...

...spiritual privileges : " 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 ; and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east ; they shall run to and fro...

...abundance. They cry aloud that a famine is raging among our own children settled in foreign lands, " not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord." " They wander," (as said the prophet,) " from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they...

...There is something more needful to man than the supply of his temporal wants. The worst famine is " not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord." — Amos viii. 1 1. We naturally ask, what made this trial necessary. Our Lord was now entering upon...

...OF MINISTERS. " 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." This passage of Scripture had special reference to the Jews, in whom it has been fully accomplished....

...God's word, and subjected God's people to the most terrible of all thirst; for, as Amos said, it was " not " a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of " hearing the word of the Lord." They wandered up and down, amidst the thick darkness, seeking in vain for some feeble...