8. Wail like a maiden girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9. The grain offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the House of יהוה. The priests, servants of יהוה, have mourned.
10. The field is ravaged, the ground has mourned, for the grain is ruined, the new wine has dried up, the oil fails.
11. The farmers are ashamed, the vinedressers wail over the wheat and over the barley, for the harvest of the field is destroyed.
12. The vine has dried up, and the fig tree droops, pomegranate, also palm, and apple tree, all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up among the sons of men.