Joel 1:13-15

Contemporary English Version

Return to God

¹³Mourn, you priests who serve
    at the altar of my God.
Spend your days and nights
    wearing sackcloth.^[a]
Offerings of grain and wine
are no longer brought
    to the Lord's temple.

¹⁴Tell the leaders and people
to come together
    at the temple.
Order them to go without eating^[b]
    and to pray sincerely.
¹⁵^(A) We are in for trouble!
Soon the Lord All-Powerful
    will bring disaster.

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Footnotes

1.13 sackcloth: A rough, dark-colored cloth made from goat or camel hair and used to make grain sacks. It was worn in times of trouble or sorrow.
1.14 go without eating: As a way of showing sorrow for their sins.