Joel 1:10-17
10The field is aruined,bThe land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil ▼
▼ Lit wastes away
fails.11 ▼
▼ Or The farmers are ashamed, The vinedressers wail
,
eBe ashamed, O farmers,Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the fharvest of the field is destroyed.
12The gvine dries up
And the fig tree ▼
▼ Lit wastes away
fails;The ipomegranate, the jpalm also, and the ▼
▼ Or apricot
,
lapple tree,All the trees of the field dry up.
Indeed, mrejoicing dries up
From the sons of men.
13 nGird yourselves with sackcloth
And lament, O priests;
oWail, O ministers of the altar!
Come, pspend the night in sackcloth
O ministers of my God,
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
Starvation and Drought
14 qConsecrate a fast,Proclaim a rsolemn assembly;
Gather the elders
And all the inhabitants of the land
To the house of the Lord your God,
And scry out to the Lord.
15 tAlas for the day!
For the uday of the Lord is near,
And it will come as vdestruction from the ▼
▼ Heb Shaddai
Almighty.16Has not xfood been cut off before our eyes,
Gladness and yjoy from the house of our God?
17The ▼
▼ Or dried figs
,
aaseeds shrivel under their ▼▼ Or shovels
clods;The storehouses are desolate,
The barns are torn down,
For the grain is dried up.
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