⁹ 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)
12 The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(I)
the pomegranate,^(J) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(K)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

¹⁵ Alas for that^(S) day!
    For the day of the Lord^(T) is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty.^[b](U)

¹⁶ Has not the food been cut off^(V)
    before our very eyes—
joy and gladness^(W)
    from the house of our God?^(X)

¹⁴ Who knows? He may turn^(A) and relent^(B)
    and leave behind a blessing^(C)—
grain offerings and drink offerings^(D)
    for the Lord your God.

¹⁷ Let the priests, who minister^(A) before the Lord,
    weep^(B) between the portico and the altar.^(C)
Let them say, “Spare your people, Lord.
    Do not make your inheritance an object of scorn,^(D)
    a byword^(E) among the nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,
    ‘Where is their God?^(F)’”

¹⁸ “In that day the mountains will drip new wine,^(A)
    and the hills will flow with milk;^(B)
    all the ravines of Judah will run with water.^(C)
A fountain will flow out of the Lord’s house^(D)
    and will water the valley of acacias.^[a](E)