“The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.”
The lamentation that the fields are ruined and the ground is mourned because the grain is destroyed and the wine fails and the oil languishes indicates comprehensive agricultural collapse affecting all the primary products of the Israelite agricultural economy. The personification of the ground as mourning suggests that the land itself grieves the destruction visited upon it. This verse emphasizes the totality of the agricultural collapse.
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