Isa 24:7-12, Hos 2:9, 12, Joe 1:3-7, 9-13, Amo 4:5-11, Mic 6:13-16 | ESV | STEP | The wine mourns , the vine languishes , all the merry-hearted sigh .

7 ^aThe wine mourns,
the vine languishes,
all the merry-hearted sigh.
8 ^bThe mirth of the tambourines is stilled,
the noise of the jubilant has ceased,
the mirth of the lyre is stilled.
9 No more do they drink wine ^cwith singing;
strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10 ^dThe wasted city is broken down;
^eevery house is shut up so that none can enter.
11 ^fThere is an outcry in the streets for lack of wine;
^gall joy has grown dark;
the gladness of the earth is banished.
12 Desolation is left in the city;
the gates are battered into ruins.

Hosea 2:9

9 Therefore ^hI will take back
my grain in its time,
and my wine in its season,
and ⁱI will take away my wool and my flax,
which were to cover her nakedness.

Hosea 2:12

12 And ^jI will lay waste her vines and her fig trees,
^kof which she said,
‘These are ^lmy wages,
which my lovers have given me.’
I will make them a forest,
^mand the beasts of the field shall devour them.

Joel 1:3-7

3 ⁿTell your children of it,
and let your children tell their children,
and their children to another generation.
4 What ^othe cutting locust left,
^pthe swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
^qthe hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
^rthe destroying locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and ^swail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of ^tthe sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For ^ua nation has come up against my land,
^vpowerful and beyond number;
^wits teeth are lions’ teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has laid waste my vine
and splintered my ^xfig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches are made white.

Joel 1:9-13

9 ^yThe grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
from the house of the Lord.
^zThe priests mourn,
^aathe ministers of the Lord.
10 The fields are destroyed,
^abthe ground mourns,
because ^acthe grain is destroyed,
^adthe wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
11 ^aeBe ashamed, ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for dry up and be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike} O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
^agbecause the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
^ahthe fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and ^aigladness dries up
from the children of man.

A Call to Repentance

13 ^ajPut on sackcloth and lament, ^akO priests;
^alwail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, ^ampass the night in sackcloth,
^anO ministers of my God!
^aoBecause grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.

Amos 4:5-11

5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of ^apthat which is leavened,
and proclaim ^aqfreewill offerings, publish them;
^arfor so you love to do, O people of Israel!”

declares the Lord God.

Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and ^aslack of bread in all your places,
^atyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
7 “I also ^auwithheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
^avI would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
8 so two or three cities ^awwould wander to another city
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
^axyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
9 ^ay“I struck you with blight and mildew;
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees ^azthe locust devoured;
^bayet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
10 “I sent among you a pestilence ^bbafter the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword,
and ^bccarried away your horses, ^{▼▼Hebrew along with the captivity of your horses}
and ^beI made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
^bfyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.
11 “I overthrew some of you,
^bgas when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were ^bhas a brand ^{▼▼That is, a burning stick} plucked out of the burning;
^bjyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.

Micah 6:13-16

13 Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow,
^bkmaking you desolate because of your sins.
14 ^blYou shall eat, but not be satisfied,
and there shall be hunger within you;
you shall put away, but not preserve,
and what you preserve I will give to the sword.
15 ^bmYou shall sow, but not reap;
you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
16 For you have kept the statutes of ^bnOmri, ^{▼▼Hebrew For the statutes of Omri are kept}
and all the works of the house of ^bpAhab;
and you have walked in their counsels,
that I may make you ^bqa desolation, and your ^{▼▼Hebrew its} inhabitants ^bsa hissing;
so you shall bear ^btthe scorn of my people.”