Grain and drink offerings have been cut off(A)
from the house of the Lord;
the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.(B)
10 The fields are destroyed;(C)
the land grieves;
indeed, the grain is destroyed;
the new wine is dried up;(D)
and the fresh oil fails.(E)
11 Be ashamed, you farmers,(F)
wail, you vinedressers,[a]
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 1:11 Or The farmers are dismayed, the vinedressers wail

Grain offerings and drink offerings(A)
    are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,(B)
    those who minister before the Lord.
10 The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;(C)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine(D) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.(E)

11 Despair, you farmers,(F)
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,(G)
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.(H)

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