Joel 1:8-13
Read Joel 1 in full →8aWail like a virgin bgirded with sackclothFor the bridegroom of her youth.9The agrain offering and the drink offering are cut offFrom the house of Yahweh.The bpriests mourn,The ministers of Yahweh.10The field is adestroyed;bThe land mourns,For the grain is destroyed,The new wine dries up,Fresh oil 1fails.111,aBe ashamed, O farmers,Wail, O vinedressers,For the wheat and the barley,Because the bharvest of the field perishes.12The avine dries up,And the fig tree 1fails;The bpomegranate, the cpalm also, and the 2,dapple tree,All the trees of the field dry up.Indeed, erejoicing dries upFrom the sons of men.