10. The fields are ruined,the ground is dried up;the grain is destroyed,the new wine is dried up,the olive oil fails.
11. Despair, you farmers,wail, you vine growers;grieve for the wheat and the barley,because the harvest of the field is destroyed.
12. The vine is dried upand the fig-tree is withered;the pomegranate, the palm and the apple tree –all the trees of the field – are dried up.Surely the people’s joyis withered away.
13. Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn;wail, you who minister before the altar.Come, spend the night in sackcloth,you who minister before my God;for the grain offerings and drink offeringsare withheld from the house of your God.
14. Declare a holy fast;call a sacred assembly.Summon the eldersand all who live in the landto the house of the Lord your God,and cry out to the Lord.
15. Alas for that day!For the day of the Lord is near;it will come like destruction from the Almighty.
16. Has not the food been cut offbefore our very eyes –joy and gladnessfrom the house of our God?
17. The seeds are shrivelledbeneath the clods.The storehouses are in ruins,the granaries have been broken down,for the grain has dried up.
18. How the cattle moan!The herds mill aboutbecause they have no pasture;even the flocks of sheep are suffering.