6 That we may buy the poor for silver, And the needy for a pair of shoes, And sell the sweepings with the wheat?''
7 Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, 'Surely I will never forget any of their works.
8 Won't the land tremble for this, And everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; And it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.
9 'It will happen in that day,' says the Lord Yahweh, 'That I will cause the sun to go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in the clear day.
10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, 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.
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