6. We will buy the destitute for silver,and the poor for a pair of sandals;even the worthless grain we will sell!”
7. The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:Never will I forget a thing they have done!
8. Shall not the land tremble because of this,and all who dwell in it mourn?It will all rise up and toss like the Nile,and subside like the river of Egypt.
9. On that day—oracle of the Lord God—I will make the sun set at middayand in broad daylight cover the land with darkness.
10. I will turn your feasts into mourningand all your songs into dirges.I will cover the loins of all with sackclothand make every head bald.I will make it like the time of mourning for an only child,and its outcome like a day of bitter weeping.
11. See, days are coming—oracle of the Lord God—when I will send a famine upon the land:Not a hunger for bread, or a thirst for water,but for hearing the word of the Lord.
12. They shall stagger from sea to seaand wander from north to eastIn search of the word of the Lord,but they shall not find it.
13. On that day, beautiful young women and young menshall faint from thirst,
14. Those who swear by Ashima of Samaria, and who say, “By the life of your god, O Dan,”“By the life of the Power of Beer-sheba!”They shall fall, never to rise again.