Joel 1:8-14

New King James Version

⁸^(A)Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For ^(B)the husband of her youth.
⁹^(C)The grain offering and the drink offering
Have been cut off from the house of the Lord;
The priests ^(D)mourn, who minister to the Lord.
¹⁰The field is wasted,
^(E)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
^(F)The new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.

¹¹^(G)Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
¹²^(H)The vine has dried up,
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely ^(I)joy has withered away from the sons of men.

Mourning for the Land

¹³^(J)Gird yourselves and lament, you priests;
Wail, you who minister before the altar;
Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
You who minister to my God;
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
¹⁴^(K)Consecrate a fast,
Call ^(L)a sacred assembly;
Gather the elders
And ^(M)all the inhabitants of the land
Into the house of the Lord your God,
And cry out to the Lord.