Joel 1:13-20

Lexham English Bible

¹³ Gird yourselves and lament, O priests!
    Wail, O ministers of the altar!
Come spend the night in sackcloth,
    O ministers of my God,
because offering and libation
    are withheld from the house of your God.
¹⁴ Solemnize a fast!
    Call an assembly!
Gather the elders,
    all of the inhabitants of the land
in the house of Yahweh your God,
    and cry out to Yahweh.
¹⁵ Ah! For the day!
For the day of Yahweh is near.
    It will come like destruction from Shaddai.^[a]
16 Is not food cut off
    before our eyes,
from the house of our God,
    joy and gladness?
¹⁷ The seeds shrivel under their clods;
    the storehouses are desolate.
The grain storage places are destroyed
    because grain has dried out.
¹⁸ How the beasts^[b] groan;
    the herds of cattle wander around
because there is no pasture for them;
    the flocks of sheep are in distress.
¹⁹ To you, O Yahweh, I cry out,
because fire has devoured
    the pastures of the desert,
and flames^[c] burned
    all the trees of the field.
²⁰ Also, the beasts of the field
    long for you,
because the courses of water
    are dried up,
and fire has devoured
    the pastures of the desert.