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Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth,(A)
mourning for the husband of her youth.
Grain and drink offerings have been cut off(B)
from the house of the Lord;
the priests, who are ministers of the Lord, mourn.(C)
10 The fields are destroyed;(D)
the land grieves;
indeed, the grain is destroyed;
the new wine is dried up;(E)
and the fresh oil fails.(F)
11 Be ashamed, you farmers,(G)
wail, you vinedressers,[a]
over the wheat and the barley,
because the harvest of the field has perished.(H)

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  1. 1:11 Or The farmers are dismayed, the vinedressers wail