8. Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth.
9. Sacrifice and libation have perished from the house of the Lord; the priests who are ministers of the Lord have mourned.
10. The region has been depopulated, the soil has mourned. For the wheat has been devastated, the wine has been disfigured, the oil has languished.
11. The farmers have been confounded, the vineyard workers have wailed over the crop and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
12. The vineyard is in ruin, and the fig tree has languished. The pomegranate tree, and the palm tree, and the fruit tree, and all the trees of the field have withered. For joy has been thrown into disorder before the sons of men.
13. Priests, gird yourselves and lament. Ministers of the altars, wail. Enter, ministers of my God, lie in sackcloth. For sacrifice and libation have passed away from the house of your God.
14. Sanctify a fast, call an assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of your God. And cry out to the Lord: