8. The whole land will shake because of it.Everyone who lives in the land will cry for those who died.The whole land will rise like the Nile.It will be shaken, and then it will falllike the Nile River in Egypt.”
9. The Lord God says:“At that time I will cause the sun to go down at noon.I will make the earth dark on a clear day.
10. I will change your festivals into days of crying for the dead.All your songs will become songs of sadness for the dead.I will make all of you wear rough cloth to show your sadness.You will shave your heads to show sadness.I will make that day like the crying for the death of an only son.Its end will be very painful.”
11. The Lord God says: “The days are comingwhen I will cause a time of hunger in the land.The people will not be hungry for bread or thirsty for water.But they will be hungry for words from the Lord.
12. People will wander from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea.They will wander from the north to the east.They will search for the word of the Lord.But they won’t find it.
13. At that time the beautiful young women and the young menwill become weak from thirst.
14. They made promises by the idol in Samaria.They said, ‘As surely as the god of Dan lives . . .’And they said, ‘As surely as the god of Beersheba lives, we promise . . .’So they will falland never get up again.”