1:5 Wake up, you drunkards, 1 and weep!
Wail, all you wine drinkers, 2
because the sweet wine 3 has been taken away 4 from you. 5
1:6 For a nation 6 has invaded 7 our 8 land.
There are so many of them they are too numerous to count. 9
Their teeth are like those 10 of a lion;
they tear apart their prey like a lioness. 11
1:7 They 12 have destroyed our 13 vines; 14
they have turned our 15 fig trees into mere splinters.
They have completely stripped off the bark 16 and thrown them aside;
the 17 twigs are stripped bare. 18
1:8 Wail 19 like a young virgin 20 clothed in sackcloth,
lamenting the death of 21 her husband-to-be. 22
1:9 No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings
to the temple 23 of the Lord anymore. 24
So the priests, those who serve the Lord, are in mourning.
1:10 The crops of the fields 25 have been destroyed. 26
The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished.
The fresh wine has dried up;
the olive oil languishes.
1:11 Be distressed, 27 farmers;
wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley.
For the harvest of the field has perished.
1:12 The vine has dried up;
the fig tree languishes –
the pomegranate, date, and apple 28 as well.
In fact, 29 all the trees of the field have dried up.
Indeed, the joy of the people 30 has dried up!
1:13 Get dressed 31 and lament, you priests!
Wail, you who minister at the altar!
Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God,
because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings
to the temple of your God anymore. 32
1:14 Announce a holy fast; 33
proclaim a sacred assembly.
Gather the elders and 34 all the inhabitants of the land
to the temple of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord.
1:15 How awful that day will be! 35
For the day of the Lord is near;
it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer. 36
1:16 Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! 37
There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God! 38
1:17 The grains of seed 39 have shriveled beneath their shovels. 40
Storehouses have been decimated
and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.
1:18 Listen to the cattle groan! 41
The herds of livestock wander around in confusion 42
because they have no pasture.
Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.
1:19 To you, O Lord, I call out for help, 43
for fire 44 has burned up 45 the grassy pastures, 46
flames have razed 47 all the trees in the fields.
1:20 Even the wild animals 48 cry out to you; 49
for the river beds 50 have dried up;
fire has destroyed 51 the grassy pastures. 52