Joel 1:10–20

¹⁰The fields are devastated,

the ground mourns,

for the grain is destroyed,

the wine dries up,

the oil fails.^*

¹¹Be dismayed, you farmers;

wail, you vinedressers,

over the wheat and the barley,

for the crops of the field are ruined.^*

¹²The vine withers;

the fig tree droops.

Pomegranate, palm, and apple—

all the trees of the field are dried up;

surely, joy withers away

among the people.^*

A Call to Repentance and Prayer

¹³Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests;

wail, you ministers of the altar.

Come, pass the night in sackcloth,

you ministers of my God!

Grain offering and drink offering

are withheld from the house of your God.^*

¹⁴Consecrate a fast;

call a solemn assembly.

Gather the elders

and all the inhabitants of the land

to the house of the Lord your God,

and cry out to the Lord.^*

¹⁵Alas for the day!

For the day of the Lord is near,

and as destruction from the Almighty^a it comes.^*

¹⁶Is not the food cut off

before our eyes,

joy and gladness

from the house of our God?^*

¹⁷The seed shrivels under the clods;^b

the storehouses are desolate;

the granaries are ruined

because the grain has withered.

¹⁸How the animals groan!

The herds of cattle wander about

because there is no pasture for them;

even the flocks of sheep are perishing.^*

¹⁹To you, O Lord, I cry,

for fire has devoured

the pastures of the wilderness,

and flames have burned

all the trees of the field.^*

²⁰Even the wild animals cry to you

because the watercourses are dried up,

and fire has devoured

the pastures of the wilderness.^*