Holy Scripture
Joel 1:10
A church father on this verse
“(V. 9 seqq.) The sacrifice and libation from the house of the Lord have perished; the priests, ministers of the Lord, mourn. The land is laid waste, the earth mourns; for the wheat is destroyed. The wine is spoiled, the oil languishes, the farmers are confused. The vintners wail over the wheat and barley, for the harv…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
10For the plains languish: let the land mourn, for the corn languishes; the wine is dried up, the oil becomes scarce;
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In context
8Lament to me more than a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
9The meat offering and drink offering are removed from the house of the Lord: mourn, ye priests that serve at the altar of the Lord.
— Joel 1:10 —
11the husbandmen are consumed: mourn your property on account of the wheat and barley; for the harvest has perished from off the field.
12The vine is dried up, and the fig trees are become few; the pomegranate, and palm tree, and apple, and all the trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have abolished joy.