⁷ The Lord swears by the Pride of Jacob,
    “I will never forget any of their deeds!”
⁸ Because of this, the land will shake,
    and everyone living in it will mourn.
    The whole land will rise up like the Nile.
    It will surge and sink down again like the Nile of Egypt.
⁹ Here is what will happen on that day, declares the Lord God:
    I will make the sun set at noon,
    and I will bring darkness on the earth when it should be light.
¹⁰ I will turn your festivals into mourning
    and all of your songs into a lamentation.
    I will put sackcloth on all your waists
    and baldness on every head.
    I will make that day like the mourning for an only son,
    and it will end like a bitter day.
¹¹ Look, the days are coming, declares the Lord God,
    when I will send a famine into the land—
    not a famine of bread
    nor a thirst for water,
    but rather a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.
¹² People will stumble from sea to sea
    and from north to east.
    They will roam back and forth seeking the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.
¹³ On that day the beautiful virgins will faint,
    and the young men will grow weak from thirst.
¹⁴ Those who swear by the shameful guilt^[a] of Samaria,
    those who say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
    or, “The way of Beersheba lives”—
    they will fall, and they will never rise again.