A Call to Widespread Lamentation
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.
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The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
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Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.
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The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.
Bible text: American Standard Version (1901) · Public domain