10. The field is ravaged,the ground mourns;for the grain is ruined,the new wine is dried up,and the oil dwindles.
11. Despair, fieldworkers;wail, vinedressers,for the wheat and the barley,because the harvest of the field has perished.
12. The vine is dried up,and the fig tree is withered;pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the field are dry;surely joy has withered awayfrom the sons of men.
13. Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;wail, ministers of the altar.Come, spend the night in sackcloth,ministers of my God,because the grain offering and the drink offeringare withheld from the house of your God.
14. Consecrate a fast,call a sacred assembly,assemble the eldersand all the inhabitants of the landto 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 like devastation from the Almighty it comes.
16. Has not the food been cut offbefore our eyes,joy and gladnessfrom the house of our God?