⁸ The fishermen^(A) will groan and lament,
    all who cast hooks^(B) into the Nile;
those who throw nets on the water
    will pine away.

⁴ The earth dries up^(A) and withers,^(B)
    the world languishes and withers,
    the heavens^(C) languish with the earth.^(D)

¹⁰ The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;^(A)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine^(B) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.^(C)

¹² The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(A)
the pomegranate,^(B) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(C)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.