Because of the ground which is dismayed, since there is no rain on the land, the farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads.
From it too you will come away with your hands upon your head, for the Lord has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper by them.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have a harlot's brow, you refuse to be ashamed.
Be confounded, O tillers of the soil, wail, O vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished.
The seed shrivels under the clods, the storehouses are desolate; the granaries are ruined because the grain has failed.
And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, then I will chastise you again sevenfold for your sins,
so two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied; yet you did not return to me,” says the Lord.
the whole land brimstone and salt, and a burnt-out waste, unsown, and growing nothing, where no grass can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath —