8:11 Be certain of this, 1 the time is 2 coming,” says the sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land –
not a shortage of food or water
but an end to divine revelation! 3
8:12 People 4 will stagger from sea to sea, 5
and from the north around to the east.
They will wander about looking for a revelation from 6 the Lord,
but they will not find any. 7
8:13 In that day your 8 beautiful young women 9 and your 10 young men will faint from thirst. 11 8:14 These are the ones who now take oaths 12 in the name of the sinful idol goddess 13 of Samaria.
They vow, 14 ‘As surely as your god 15 lives, O Dan,’ or ‘As surely as your beloved one 16 lives, O Beer Sheba!’
But they will fall down and not get up again.”