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Destitute not only of necessary provision for their personal support, but of the Word of the Lord, which is the nourishment of the soul (Amos 8:11, 12).

(R. Macculloch.)

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KJV: And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

WEB: They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,