1:8 Wail 1 like a young virgin 2 clothed in sackcloth,
lamenting the death of 3 her husband-to-be. 4
1:9 No one brings grain offerings or drink offerings
to the temple 5 of the Lord anymore. 6
So the priests, those who serve the Lord, are in mourning.
2:17 Let the priests, those who serve the Lord, weep
from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. 7
Let them say, “Have pity, O Lord, on your people;
please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked,
to become a proverb 8 among the nations.
Why should it be said 9 among the peoples,
“Where is their God?”
4:8 So put on sackcloth!
Mourn and wail, saying,
‘The fierce anger of the Lord
has not turned away from us!’” 10
9:10 I said, 11
“I will weep and mourn 12 for the grasslands on the mountains, 13
I will sing a mournful song for the pastures in the wilderness
because they are so scorched no one travels through them.
The sound of livestock is no longer heard there.
Even the birds in the sky and the wild animals in the fields
have fled and are gone.”