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. They will wander from the Mediterranean Sea to the Dead Sea,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 make promises by the idol in Samariaand say, ‘As surely as the god of Dan lives … ’and, ‘As surely as the god of Beersheba lives, we promise . . . ’So they will falland never get up again.”