Joel 1:10–17

¹⁰The field is ^aruined,

^bThe land mourns;

For the grain is ruined,

The new wine dries up,

Fresh oil ¹fails.

^111aBe ashamed, O farmers,

Wail, O vinedressers,

For the wheat and the barley;

Because the ^bharvest of the field is destroyed.

¹²The ^avine dries up

And the fig tree ¹fails;

The ^bpomegranate, the ^cpalm also, and the ^2dapple tree,

All the trees of the field dry up.

Indeed, ^erejoicing dries up

From the sons of men.

^13aGird yourselves with sackcloth

And lament, O priests;

^bWail, O ministers of the altar!

Come, ^cspend 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

^14aConsecrate a fast,

Proclaim a ^bsolemn assembly;

Gather the elders

And all the inhabitants of the land

To the house of the Lord your God,

And ^ccry out to the Lord.

^15aAlas for the day!

For the ^bday of the Lord is near,

And it will come as ^cdestruction from the ¹Almighty.

¹⁶Has not ^afood been cut off before our eyes,

Gladness and ^bjoy from the house of our God?

¹⁷The ^1aseeds shrivel under their ²clods;

The storehouses are desolate,

The barns are torn down,

For the grain is dried up.