New Revised Standard Version
because the ground is cracked. Because there has been no rain on the land the farmers are dismayed; they cover their heads.

Contemporary English Version
There has been no rain, and farmers feel sick as they watch cracks appear in the dry ground.

New American Bible
because of the ruined soil; Because there is no rain in the land the farmers are confounded, they cover their heads.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandman were confounded, they covered their heads.

For the destruction of the land, because there came no rain upon the earth, the husbandman were confounded, they covered their heads.

the ground.

Leviticus 26:19,20 And I will break the pride of your stubbornness: and I will make to you the heaven above as iron, and the earth as brass. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:23,24 Be the heaven, that is over thee, of brass: and the ground thou treadest on, of iron. . . .

Deuteronomy 29:23 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:

Joel 1:19,20 To thee, O Lord, will I cry: because fire hath devoured the beautiful places of the wilderness: and the flame hath burnt all the trees of the country. . . .

the plowmen.

Joel 1:11,17 The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished. . . .