6 that we may buy the poor for silver,the needy for a pair of sandals,and sell the refuse as wheat?”
7 The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob: Surely I will never forget any of their deeds.
8 Will not the land tremble because of this,and everyone mourn who lives on it?It will all rise up like the Nile,and be tossed around, then sinklike the Nile of Egypt.
9 On that day, says the Lord God, I will make the sun go down at noon,and darken the earth in mid-daylight;
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning,and all your songs into dirges;I will put sackcloth upon all loins,and baldness on every head;I will make it like the mourning for an only child,and its end like a bitter day.
11 The time is coming, says the Lord God,when I will send a famine on the land,not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They will wander from sea to sea,and from north to east;they will run back and forth to seek the word of the Lord,but they will not find it.