¹¹ “I will make Jerusalem a heap^(A) of ruins,
    a haunt of jackals;^(B)
and I will lay waste the towns of Judah^(C)
    so no one can live there.”^(D)

²² Listen! The report is coming—
    a great commotion from the land of the north!^(A)
It will make the towns of Judah desolate,^(B)
    a haunt of jackals.^(C)

⁸ Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth^(A)
    grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
⁹ Grain offerings and drink offerings^(B)
    are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,^(C)
    those who minister before the Lord.
¹⁰ The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;^(D)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine^(E) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.^(F)

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