10 The field is ruined, The land mourns; For the grain is ruined, The new wine dries up, Fresh oilc Lit wastes awayfails. | |
11 d Or The farmers are ashamed, The vinedressers wailBe ashamed, O farmers, Wail, O vinedressers, For the wheat and the barley; Because the harvest of the field is destroyed. | |
12 The vine dries up And the fig treee Lit wastes awayfails; The pomegranate, the palm also, and thef Or apricotapple tree, All the trees of the field dry up. Indeed, rejoicing dries up From the sons of men. | |
13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth And lament, O priests; Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth O ministers of my God, For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God. | |
14 Consecrate a fast, Proclaim a solemn assembly; Gather the elders And all the inhabitants of the land To the house of the LORD your God, And cry out to the LORD. | |
15 Alas for the day! For the day of the LORD is near, And it will come as destruction from theg Heb ShaddaiAlmighty. | |
16 Has not food been cut off before our eyes, Gladness and joy from the house of our God? | |
17 Theh Or dried figsseeds shrivel under theiri Or shovelsclods; The storehouses are desolate, The barns are torn down, For the grain is dried up. | |