6. Therefore a curse devours the earth, and the inhabitants in it suffer for their guilt. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth burn, and few men are left.
7. The new wine dries up; the vine languishes. All the merry of heart sigh;
8. the joy of the tambourine has stopped. The noise of the jubilant has ceased; the joy of the lyre has stopped.
9. They do not drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10. The city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut so that no one can enter;
11. there is an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into darkness; the joy of the earth disappears.
12. Desolation is left in the city; the gate is crushed into a state of ruin.
13. For it shall be like this in the midst of the earth, among the nations, like the beating of an olive tree, like gleanings when a grape harvest is at an end.