10 The fields are destroyed,
    (A)the ground mourns,
because (B)the grain is destroyed,
    (C)the wine dries up,
    the oil languishes.

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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.

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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

A Call to Repentance

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

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