⁴ Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor^(A) of the land,^(B)

“When will the New Moon^(C) be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market^(D) wheat?”^(E)—
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating^(F) with dishonest scales,^(G)
6 buying the poor^(H) with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,
    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.^(I)

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.^(A)
10 I will turn your religious festivals^(B) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.^(C)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth^(D)
    and shave^(E) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son^(F)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.^(G)

¹¹ “The days are coming,”^(H) 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^(I) of hearing the words of the Lord.^(J)
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.^(K)