Joel 1:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸Lament like a woman dressed in funeral clothing,
    one who has lost the husband of her youth.
⁹The grain offering and the drink offering are gone from the Lord’s temple.
The priests and the Lord’s ministers mourn.
¹⁰The fields are devastated,
        the ground mourns;
    for the grain is destroyed,
        the new wine dries up,
        the olive oil fails.

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Joel 1:17-20

Common English Bible

¹⁷The grain shrivels under the shovels;^[a]
    the barns are empty.
The granaries are in ruin
    because the grain has dried up.
¹⁸How the animals groan!
    Herds of cattle are in distress
        because there is no pasture for them;
    even the flocks of sheep pant.

The prophet’s prayer

¹⁹To you, Lord, I cry,
    for fire has completely destroyed
        the pastures of the wilderness;
    and flames have burned
        all the trees of the field.
²⁰Even the field’s wild animals cry to you
        because the streams have dried up;
    the fire has completely destroyed
        the meadows of the wilderness.