“Says Yahweh God!
‘The time is surely coming
When I will send a famine
On the land.
This will be
Not a famine of bread,
Not a thirst for water,
But of hearing
The words of Yahweh.
They shall wander
From sea to sea,
From north to east.
They shall run
Back and forth
To seek
The word of Yahweh,
But they shall not find it.’”
Yahweh God said that the time was coming when he was going to send a famine on the land of Israel. However, this was going to be a different kind of famine, not a lack of bread and water, but a lack of the words of Yahweh. They could wander from sea to sea, from the north to the east, running back and forth. However, they would not be able to find the word of Yahweh, although they are hungering for it.