^9 (A)The land mourns and pines away,
^(B)Lebanon is shamed and withers;
^(C)Sharon is like a desert plain,
And Bashan and Carmel ^[a]lose their foliage.

“There is ^(A)wailing in all the plazas,
And in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’
They also call the ^(B)farmer to mourning
And ^[a](C)professional mourners to lamentation.

³ “I will remove ^(A)man and beast;
I will remove the ^(B)birds of the sky
And the fish of the sea,
And the ^[a](C)ruins along with the wicked;
And I will cut off man from the face of the ^[b]earth,” declares the Lord.