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.