8:9 In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon,
and make the earth dark in the middle of the day. 1
8:10 I will turn your festivals into funerals, 2
and all your songs into funeral dirges.
I will make everyone wear funeral clothes 3
and cause every head to be shaved bald. 4
I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; 5
when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day. 6
8:11 Be certain of this, 7 the time is 8 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! 9
8:12 People 10 will stagger from sea to sea, 11
and from the north around to the east.
They will wander about looking for a revelation from 12 the Lord,
but they will not find any. 13
8:13 In that day your 14 beautiful young women 15 and your 16 young men will faint from thirst. 17 8:14 These are the ones who now take oaths 18 in the name of the sinful idol goddess 19 of Samaria.
They vow, 20 ‘As surely as your god 21 lives, O Dan,’ or ‘As surely as your beloved one 22 lives, O Beer Sheba!’
But they will fall down and not get up again.”