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11 The Lord God says: “The days are coming
    when 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.

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11 “The days are coming,”(A) 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(B) of hearing the words of the Lord.(C)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
    and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.(D)

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