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Rh :He hath made it clean bare, and cast it away;
 * The branches thereof are made white.
 * Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
 * The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord;
 * The priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn.
 * The field is wasted, the land mourneth;
 * For the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
 * Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers,
 * For the wheat and for the barley;
 * Because the harvest of the field is perished.
 * The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth;
 * The pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree,
 * Even all the trees of the field, are withered:
 * Because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
 * Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests:
 * Howl, ye ministers of the altar:
 * Come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God:
 * For the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
 * Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly,
 * Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land
 * Into the house of the Lord your God,