Amos 8

“The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 People 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. vv.11-12

Read chapter 8
The time was coming of God's silence on Israel.  They would go in to captivity and no longer hear the word of God through priests or prophets (and they didn't have Bibles to read then either).  There would be a famine of God's word for 70 years.  Imagine when theres a famine of bread, none can be found in the stores, all morsels in homes are eaten up, peoples hunger starts turning them to violence or craziness- we see this around the world every day on the news in countries experience famine of basic needs like food and water.  
Yet is there a famine of God's word today?  The average American home has at least one Bible in it, yet even though they have it it's never opened so it's never heard.  People are creating their own famine of God's voice because they're choosing not to listen or hear what He has said.  And I'm not just talking about nonbelievers, I'm talking about those who profess Jesus as their Savior.  Listening to George Barna, Christian poll-taker and sociologist,

As he talks about biblical illiteracy, he says, “How else can you describe matters when most church-going adults reject the accuracy of the Bible, reject the existence of Satan, claim that Jesus sinned, see no need to evangelize, believe that good works are one of the keys to persuading God to forgive their sins, and describe their commitment to Christianity as moderate or even less firm?”¹ That’s a majority of church-going adults.

If God's word, the Bible, were missing would you notice?  If the Bible was illegal in our country and your bible was confiscated, would your life change? If so, how?  Would you wander the earth searching for God's word?