8. ‘Will not the land tremble for this,and all who live in it mourn?The whole land will rise like the Nile;it will be stirred up and then sinklike the river of Egypt.
9. ‘In that day,’ declares the Sovereign Lord,‘I will make the sun go down at noonand darken the earth in broad daylight.
10. I will turn your religious festivals into mourningand all your singing into weeping.I will make all of you wear sackclothand shave your heads.I will make that time like mourning for an only sonand the end of it like a bitter day.
11. ‘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.