Joel 1:8-13
Legacy Standard Bible
8 (A)Wail like a virgin (B)girded with sackcloth
For the bridegroom of her youth.
9 The (C)grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
From the house of Yahweh.
The (D)priests mourn,
The ministers of Yahweh.
10 The field is (E)destroyed;
(F)The land mourns,
For the grain is destroyed,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil [a]fails.
11 [b](G)Be ashamed, O farmers,
Wail, O vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley,
Because the (H)harvest of the field perishes.
12 The (I)vine dries up,
And the fig tree [c]fails;
The (J)pomegranate, the (K)palm also, and the [d](L)apple tree,
All the trees of the field dry up.
Indeed, (M)rejoicing dries up
From the sons of men.
The Day of Yahweh Is Near
13 (N)Gird yourselves with sackcloth
And lament, O priests;
(O)Wail, O ministers of the altar!
Come, (P)spend the night in sackcloth,
O ministers of my God;
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
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