Joel 1:8-14

New International Version

⁸Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth^(A)
    grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
⁹Grain offerings and drink offerings^(B)
    are cut off from the house of the Lord.
The priests are in mourning,^(C)
    those who minister before the Lord.
¹⁰The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;^(D)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine^(E) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.^(F)

¹¹Despair, you farmers,^(G)
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,^(H)
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.^(I)
¹²The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(J)
the pomegranate,^(K) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(L)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

A Call to Lamentation

¹³Put on sackcloth,^(M) you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister^(N) before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings^(O)
    are withheld from the house of your God.
¹⁴Declare a holy fast;^(P)
    call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
    and all who live in the land^(Q)
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out^(R) to the Lord.^(S)