²⁵ I looked, and there were no people;
    every bird in the sky had flown away.^(A)

¹⁰ I will weep and wail for the mountains
    and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands.^(A)
They are desolate and untraveled,
    and the lowing of cattle is not heard.
The birds^(B) have all fled
    and the animals are gone.

¹⁰ The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;^(A)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine^(B) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.^(C)

¹¹ Despair, you farmers,^(D)
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,^(E)
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.^(F)
12 The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(G)
the pomegranate,^(H) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(I)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

¹⁵ Alas for that^(Q) day!
    For the day of the Lord^(R) is near;
    it will come like destruction from the Almighty.^[b](S)

¹⁶ Has not the food been cut off^(T)
    before our very eyes—
joy and gladness^(U)
    from the house of our God?^(V)
17 The seeds are shriveled
    beneath the clods.^[c](W)
The storehouses are in ruins,
    the granaries have been broken down,
    for the grain has dried up.