Joel 1:10–20

¹⁰The field is wasted,

^oThe land mourns;

For the grain is ruined,

^pThe new wine is dried up,

The oil fails.

^11qBe ashamed, you farmers,

Wail, you vinedressers,

For the wheat and the barley;

Because the harvest of the field has perished.

^12rThe vine has dried up,

And the fig tree has withered;

The pomegranate tree,

The palm tree also,

And the apple tree—

All the trees of the field are withered;

Surely ^sjoy has withered away from the sons of men.

Mourning for the Land

^13tGird yourselves and lament, you priests;

Wail, you who minister before the altar;

Come, lie all night in sackcloth,

You who minister to my God;

For the grain offering and the drink offering

Are withheld from the house of your God.

^14uConsecrate a fast,

Call ^va sacred assembly;

Gather the elders

And ^wall the inhabitants of the land

Into the house of the Lord your God,

And cry out to the Lord.

^15xAlas for the day!

For ^ythe day of the Lord is at hand;

It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

¹⁶Is not the food ^zcut off before our eyes,

^aJoy and gladness from the house of our God?

¹⁷The seed shrivels under the clods,

Storehouses are in shambles;

Barns are broken down,

For the grain has withered.

¹⁸How ^bthe animals groan!

The herds of cattle are restless,

Because they have no pasture;

Even the flocks of sheep ⁴suffer punishment.

¹⁹O Lord, ^cto You I cry out;

For ^dfire has devoured the ⁵open pastures,

And a flame has burned all the trees of the field.

²⁰The beasts of the field also ^ecry out to You,

For ^fthe water brooks are dried up,

And fire has devoured the ⁶open pastures.