^{8 Ref} Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

^{9 Ref} The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.

^{10 Ref} The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

^{11 Ref} Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

^{12 Ref} The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

^{13 Ref} Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.