10 The field is aruined,

bThe land mourns;

For the grain is ruined,

The new wine dries up,

Fresh oil 1fails.

11 1aBe ashamed, O farmers,

Wail, O vinedressers,

For the wheat and the barley;

Because the bharvest of the field is destroyed.

12 The avine dries up

And the fig tree 1fails;

The bpomegranate, the cpalm also, and the 2dapple tree,

All the trees of the field dry up.

Indeed, erejoicing dries up

From the sons of men.

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.

Starvation and Drought

14 aConsecrate a fast,

Proclaim a bsolemn assembly;

Gather the elders

And all the inhabitants of the land

To the house of the Lord your God,

And ccry out to the Lord.

15 aAlas for the day!

For the bday of the Lord is near,

And it will come as cdestruction from the 1Almighty.

16 Has not afood been cut off before our eyes,

Gladness and bjoy from the house of our God?

17 The 1aseeds shrivel under their 2clods;

The storehouses are desolate,

The barns are torn down,

For the grain is dried up.