Not a famine of good or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord

Amos 8:1-14
Highest view::A basket of ripe fruit: means the time is ripe for my people Israel; God will spare them no longer.
Turn your religious feasts into mourning and all your singing into weeping, make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads, make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
Spot light::Not a famine of good or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
Meditation::Men will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it. Where is the word of God?
A Syrian goddess worshipped in Israel. Dan, in the far north, was the town where Jeroboam | erected(豎立) a calf-image to divert the people from worship in Jerusalem.
Why?
People like to think their 'little' sins too small for God to notice. But he sees everything: greed and sharp practice; short weight and sub-standard good. And the poor, who always come off worst, are his special concern.
Famine of hearing the words of the Lord, induces famine of physical goods.
Israelite in Samaria boasted and enjoy their religious feast everyday, it turn into morning.
How?
The word of God like the gold is precious, don't think little sins too small for God to notice.