"He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made
it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made
white. . . .

"Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen! howl, O ye vine-dressers! . . .

"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." [Footnote: Joel, chapter i., verses 1-12.]