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3“In that day,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.Or “the temple singers will wail Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”

4Hear this, you who trample the needy
and do away with the poor of the land,

5saying,
“When will the New Moon be over
that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
that we may market wheat?”—
skimping the measure,
boosting the price
and cheating with dishonest scales,

6buying the poor with silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals,
selling even the sweepings with the wheat.

7The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.

8“Will not the land tremble for this,
and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
it will be stirred up and then sink
like the river of Egypt.

11“The days are coming,” 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 of hearing the words of the LORD.

12Men 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.

13“In that day
“the lovely young women and strong young men
will faint because of thirst.

14They who swear by the shameOr by Ashima; or by the idol of Samaria,
or say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’
or, ‘As surely as the godOr power of Beersheba lives’—
they will fall,
never to rise again.”