15Alas for that day! For the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty. Hebrew Shaddai
16Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
17The seeds are shriveled beneath the clods. The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. The storehouses are in ruins, the granaries have been broken down, for the grain has dried up.