Joel 1:10-18

10The fields are destroyed,
athe ground mourns,
because bthe grain is destroyed,
cthe wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
11 dBe 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,
fbecause the harvest of the field has perished.
12The vine dries up;
gthe fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and hgladness dries up
from the children of man.

A Call to Repentance

13 iPut on sackcloth and lament, jO priests;
kwail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, lpass the night in sackcloth,
mO ministers of my God!
nBecause grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.
14 oConsecrate a fast;
pcall a solemn assembly.
Gather qthe elders
and rall the inhabitants of the land
to the house of the Lord your God,
and cry out to the Lord.
15 Alas for the day!
sFor the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty
 Destruction sounds like the Hebrew for  Almighty
it comes.
16Is not the food cut off
before our eyes,
ujoy and gladness
from the house of our God?
17 vThe seed shrivels under the clods;
The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain

the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
because xthe grain has dried up.
18How ythe beasts groan!
The herds of cattle are perplexed
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep suffer.
Or are made desolate

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