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they shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Beat your breasts [in mourning] for the beautiful fields, for the fruitful vine,
They shall beat upon their breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,
beating your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts in mourning for the pleasant fields and fruitful vines,
Slap your breasts in sorrow because of what happened to the fruitful fields and vineyards,
They shall smite on the breasts [in lamentation] for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vineyards.
Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard.
Beat your breasts in sorrow. Cry because your fields are empty. Your vineyards once gave grapes, but now they are empty.
Weep and hit your breasts, because your good fields have no crops, and your vines have no grapes.
Beat your breasts in mourning for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts [C a sign of mourning or grief], ·because the fields that were pleasant are now empty [L for the pleasant fields]. ·Cry, because the vines that once had fruit now have no more grapes [L …for the fruitful vine].
Men shall lament for the teats, even for the pleasant fields, and for the fruitful vine.
Beat your breasts as you mourn for the fields, for the vines bearing grapes.
Beat your breasts in grief because the fertile fields and the vineyards have been destroyed,
Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,
Beat your breasts in grief because the fields that were pleasant are now empty. Cry because the vines that once had fruit now have no more grapes.
For people will be beating their breasts in mourning over the pleasant fields, over the fruitful vines,
Upon their breasts they shall lament for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Beat your breasts for the desirable fields, for the fruitful vine,
mourning over breasts, over fields of delight, over the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts in sorrow for those bountiful farms of yours that will soon be gone, and for those fruitful vines of other years.
Take your stand, idle women! Listen to me! Indulgent, idle women, listen closely to what I have to say. In just a little over a year from now, you’ll be shaken out of your lazy lives. The grape harvest will fail, and there’ll be no fruit on the trees. Oh tremble, you idle women. Get serious, you pampered dolls! Strip down and discard your silk fineries. Put on funeral clothes. Shed honest tears for the lost harvest, the failed vintage. Weep for my people’s gardens and farms that grow nothing but thistles and thornbushes. Cry tears, real tears, for the happy homes no longer happy, the merry city no longer merry. The royal palace is deserted, the bustling city quiet as a morgue, The emptied parks and playgrounds taken over by wild animals, delighted with their new home.
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts as you mourn for the fields, for the vines bearing grapes.
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine;
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts in mourning for the pleasant fields and the fruitful vines,
Beat your breasts in grief, because the fields that were pleasant are now empty. Cry, because the vines that once had fruit now have no more grapes.
Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine.
Beat your chests to show how sad you are. The pleasant fields have been destroyed. The fruitful vines have dried up.
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines
People shall mourn upon their breasts For the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
Beat your breasts for the good fields, for the vine full of fruit,
Beat your breasts in sorrow for your bountiful farms and your fruitful grapevines.
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
They shall mournfully beat upon their breasts, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful gefen (vine).
Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts lamenting for pleasant fields, or fruitful vine,
Beat your breasts over the loss of those lush vineyards, over the vines, heavy with fruit.
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
wail ye on breasts, on the desirable country(side), on the plenteous vinery. (beat ye your breasts, and wail ye, for the desirable land, and for the plentiful vines.)
For breasts they are lamenting, For fields of desire, for the fruitful vine.
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