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11 between their terraces[a] they press out oil;
    they tread the winepresses but suffer thirst.

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Footnotes

  1. 24.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain

The wine dries up;
    the vine languishes;
    all the merry-hearted sigh.(A)

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The mirth of the timbrels is stilled;
    the noise of the jubilant has ceased;
    the mirth of the lyre is stilled.(A)

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33 Gladness and joy have been taken away
    from the fruitful land of Moab;
I have stopped the wine from the winepresses;
    no one treads them with shouts of joy;
    the shouting is not the shout of joy.(A)

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