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¶ Lament like a young woman girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

The grain offering and the drink offering of the house of the LORD has perished; the priests, the LORD’s ministers, mourn.

10 The field was destroyed, the land mourns; for the wheat was destroyed; the new wine was dried up, the oil perished.

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Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth(A)
    grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
Grain offerings and drink offerings(B)
    are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,(C)
    those who minister before the Lord.
10 The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;(D)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine(E) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.(F)

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