⁴ The roads to Zion mourn,^(A)
    for no one comes to her appointed festivals.
All her gateways are desolate,^(B)
    her priests groan,
her young women grieve,
    and she is in bitter anguish.^(C)

⁸ Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth^(A)
    grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
⁹ Grain offerings and drink offerings^(B)
    are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,^(C)
    those who minister before the Lord.
¹⁰ The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;^(D)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine^(E) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.^(F)

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

¹¹ “I will make Jerusalem a heap^(A) of ruins,
    a haunt of jackals;^(B)
and I will lay waste the towns of Judah^(C)
    so no one can live there.”^(D)

⁶ He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
    he has destroyed^(A) his place of meeting.^(B)
The Lord has made Zion forget
    her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;^(C)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
    both king and priest.^(D)

⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
    and abandoned his sanctuary.^(E)
He has given the walls of her palaces^(F)
    into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
    as on the day of an appointed festival.^(G)

² “Judah mourns,^(A)
    her cities languish;
they wail for the land,
    and a cry goes up from Jerusalem.

²² Listen! The report is coming—
    a great commotion from the land of the north!^(A)
It will make the towns of Judah desolate,^(B)
    a haunt of jackals.^(C)

⁴ The earth dries up^(A) and withers,^(B)
    the world languishes and withers,
    the heavens^(C) languish with the earth.^(D)
5 The earth is defiled^(E) by its people;
    they have disobeyed^(F) the laws,
violated the statutes
    and broken the everlasting covenant.^(G)
6 Therefore a curse^(H) consumes the earth;
    its people must bear their guilt.
Therefore earth’s inhabitants are burned up,^(I)
    and very few are left.

¹² Therefore because of you,
    Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,^(A)
    the temple^(B) hill a mound overgrown with thickets.^(C)

¹³ Young men toil at the millstones;
    boys stagger under loads of wood.