Joel 1:10–17

¹⁰The fields are ruined,

the land is stripped bare.

The grain is destroyed,

the grapes have shriveled,

and the olive oil is gone.

¹¹Despair, all you farmers!

Wail, all you vine growers!

Weep, because the wheat and barley—

all the crops of the field—are ruined.

¹²The grapevines have dried up,

and the fig trees have withered.

The pomegranate trees, palm trees, and apple trees—

all the fruit trees—have dried up.

And the people’s joy has dried up with them.

¹³Dress yourselves in burlap and weep, you priests!

Wail, you who serve before the altar!

Come, spend the night in burlap,

you ministers of my God.

For there is no grain or wine

to offer at the Temple of your God.

¹⁴Announce a time of fasting;

call the people together for a solemn meeting.

Bring the leaders

and all the people of the land

into the Temple of the Lord your God,

and cry out to him there.

¹⁵The day of the Lord is near,

the day when destruction comes from the Almighty.

How terrible that day will be!

¹⁶Our food disappears before our very eyes.

No joyful celebrations are held in the house of our God.

¹⁷The seeds die in the parched ground,

and the grain crops fail.

The barns stand empty,

and granaries are abandoned.