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The Lord God says:
“·At that time [L In that day] I will cause the sun to go down at noon
    and make the earth dark ·on a bright day [in broad daylight].
10 I will change your festivals into ·days of crying for the dead [mourning],
    and all your songs will become ·songs of sadness [dirges; lamentation; weeping].
I will ·make all of you wear rough cloth to show your sadness [L put sackcloth on every waist];
    ·I will make you shave your heads as well [L …and baldness on every head].
I will make it like ·a time of crying [mourning] for the death of an only son,
    and its end like the end of an ·awful [bitter] day.”

11 The Lord God says: “[L Look; T Behold] The days are coming
    when I will ·cause a time of hunger in [send a famine throughout] the land.
·The people will not be hungry for bread or thirsty for water [L … not a famine of food or a thirst for water],
    but ·they will be hungry for words from [L for hearing the words of] the Lord.

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“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord,

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.(A)
10 I will turn your religious festivals(B) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.(C)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth(D)
    and shave(E) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son(F)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.(G)

11 “The days are coming,”(H) 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(I) of hearing the words of the Lord.(J)

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