“Because the ground became cracked, for there has been no rain in the land. The ploughmen were put to shame, they covered their heads.
“Even from this one you shall go forth, with your hands on your head. For יהוה has rejected those you trust, and you shall not prosper by them.
“Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain. You have had a whore’s forehead, you refuse to be ashamed.
The farmers are ashamed, the vinedressers wail over the wheat and over the barley, for the harvest of the field is destroyed.
The seed has rotted under their clods, storehouses are laid waste, granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered.
‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins.
“Then two or three cities would wander to another city to drink water, but they were not satisfied. But you did not turn back to Me,” declares יהוה.
‘All its land is sulphur, salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, like the overthrow of Seḏ