11 (A)Be ashamed,[a] O tillers of the soil;
    wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
    (B)because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
    (C)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (D)gladness dries up
    from the children of man.

A Call to Repentance

13 (E)Put on sackcloth and lament, (F)O priests;
    (G)wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, (H)pass the night in sackcloth,
    (I)O ministers of my God!
(J)Because grain offering and drink offering
    are withheld from the house of your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:11 The Hebrew words for dry up and be ashamed in verses 10–12, 17 sound alike

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