15 Alas for the day!
(A)For the day of the Lord is near,
    and as destruction from the Almighty[a] it comes.
16 Is not the food cut off
    before our eyes,
(B)joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?

17 (C)The seed shrivels under the clods;[b]
    the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
    because (D)the grain has dried up.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:15 Destruction sounds like the Hebrew for Almighty
  2. Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew line is uncertain

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