diff --git a/src/node_file.cc b/src/node_file.cc
index f569eea1a7f9b8..731245816f70e1 100644
--- a/src/node_file.cc
+++ b/src/node_file.cc
@@ -3439,8 +3439,9 @@ void BindingData::LegacyMainResolve(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) {
   }
 
   THROW_ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND(isolate,
-                             "Cannot find package '%s' imported from %s",
-                             package_initial_file,
+                             "No package entry point defined for package"
+                             " %s imported from %s",
+                             *utf8_package_json_url,
                              *module_base);
 }
 
diff --git a/test/es-module/test-import-empty.js b/test/es-module/test-import-empty.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..c073a35777860b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/es-module/test-import-empty.js
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const { spawnPromisified } = require('../common');
+const fixtures = require('../common/fixtures.js');
+const assert = require('node:assert');
+const { execPath } = require('node:process');
+const { describe, it } = require('node:test');
+
+describe('Import empty module', { concurrency: true }, () => {
+  it(async () => {
+    const { code, signal, stdout, stderr } = await spawnPromisified(execPath, [
+      '--no-warnings',
+      '--eval',
+      'import("empty")',
+    ], {
+      cwd: fixtures.path(),
+    });
+    assert.match(stderr, /No package entry point defined for package/);
+    assert.strictEqual(stdout, '');
+    assert.strictEqual(code, 1);
+    assert.strictEqual(signal, null);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/fixtures/node_modules/empty/package.json b/test/fixtures/node_modules/empty/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..0967ef424bce67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/fixtures/node_modules/empty/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+{}