Joel 1:11-13

Contemporary English Version

¹¹Mourn for our farms
    and our vineyards!
There's no wheat or barley
    growing in our fields.
¹²Grapevines have dried up
and so has every tree—
    figs and pomegranates,^[a]
    date palms and apples.
All happiness has faded away.

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¹³Mourn, you priests who serve
    at the altar of my God.
Spend your days and nights
    wearing sackcloth.^[b]
Offerings of grain and wine
are no longer brought
    to the Lord's temple.

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Footnotes

1.12 pomegranates: A bright red fruit that looks like an apple.
1.13 sackcloth: A rough, dark-colored cloth made from goat or camel hair and used to make grain sacks. It was worn in times of trouble or sorrow.