8 aWail like a virgin bgirded with sackcloth
For the bridegroom of her youth.
9 The agrain offering and the drink offering are cut off
From the house of Yahweh.
The bpriests mourn,
The ministers of Yahweh.
10 The field is adestroyed;
bThe land mourns,
For the grain is destroyed,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil fails.
11 aBe ashamed, O farmers,
Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley,
Because the bharvest of the field perishes.
12 The avine dries up,
And the fig tree fails;
The bpomegranate, the cpalm also, and the dapple tree,
All the trees of the field dry up.
Indeed, erejoicing dries up
From the sons of men.
The Day of Yahweh Is Near
13 aGird yourselves with sackcloth
And lament, O priests;
bWail, O ministers of the altar!
Come, cspend 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.