3 All the while the boy Samuel was ministering+ to Jehovah before Eʹli, and word from Jehovah+ had become rare in those days;+ there was no vision+ being spread abroad.

11 “‘Look! There are days coming,’ is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah, ‘and I will send a famine into the land, a famine, not for bread,* and a thirst, not for water, but for hearing the words of Jehovah.+