15. Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
16. Is not the food cut off before our eyes, the joy and the gladness from the house of our God?
17. The seed has rotted under their clods, the storehouses were laid desolate, the barns were destroyed for the wheat is withered.
18. How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep are condemned.