6. that we may buy the poor for silver,and the needy for a pair of shoes,and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
7. The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob,“Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8. Won’t the land tremble for this,and everyone mourn who dwells in it?Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
9. It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD,“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
10. I will turn your feasts into mourning,and all your songs into lamentation;and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,and baldness on every head.I will make it like the mourning for an only son,and its end like a bitter day.
11. Behold, the days come,” says the Lord GOD,“that I will send a famine in the land,not a famine of bread,nor a thirst for water,but of hearing the Lord’s words.