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“And on that day,” says the Lord God,
    “I will make the sun go down at noon,
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning,
    and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth upon all loins,
    and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son,
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
    “when I will send a famine on the land;
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    but of 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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