⁶ The waters of Nimrim are dried up^(A)
    and the grass is withered;^(B)
the vegetation is gone^(C)
    and nothing green is left.^(D)

¹⁰ The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;^(A)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine^(B) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.^(C)

¹¹ Despair, you farmers,^(D)
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,^(E)
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.^(F)
12 The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(G)
the pomegranate,^(H) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(I)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

⁵ The waters of the river will dry up,^(A)
    and the riverbed will be parched and dry.^(B)
6 The canals will stink;^(C)
    the streams of Egypt will dwindle and dry up.^(D)
The reeds^(E) and rushes will wither,^(F)
7     also the plants^(G) along the Nile,
    at the mouth of the river.
Every sown field^(H) along the Nile
    will become parched, will blow away and be no more.^(I)

¹⁷ Though the fig tree does not bud
    and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
    and the fields produce no food,^(A)
though there are no sheep in the pen
    and no cattle in the stalls,^(B)
18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord,^(C)
    I will be joyful in God my Savior.^(D)

⁹ So I weep,^(A) as Jazer weeps,
    for the vines of Sibmah.
Heshbon and Elealeh,^(B)
    I drench you with tears!^(C)
The shouts of joy^(D) over your ripened fruit
    and over your harvests^(E) have been stilled.
¹⁰ Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;^(F)
    no one sings or shouts^(G) in the vineyards;
no one treads^(H) out wine at the presses,^(I)
    for I have put an end to the shouting.