MKJV(i)
8 Weep like a virgin clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9 The food offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah's ministers, mourn.
10 The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up; the oil tree droops.
11 Be ashamed, husbandmen; howl, vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree droops, the pomegranate and the palm tree, and the apple tree; all the trees of the field are dried up, because joy has dried up from the sons of men.
13 Gird up and lament, priests; howl, ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God. For the food offering and the drink offering are held back from the house of your God.
14 Set apart a fast; call a solemn gathering; gather the elders and all the people of the land into the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to the Lord,
15 Alas for the day! For the day of Jehovah is at hand, and it shall come as a ruin from the Almighty.
16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, and joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17 The seed is rotten under their clods; the storage bins are laid waste; the barns are broken down, for the grain has dried up.
18 How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are troubled because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are destroyed.