Joel 1:11-13

English Standard Version Anglicised

^11 (A)Be ashamed,^[a] O tillers of the soil;
    wail, O vine dressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
    ^(B)because the harvest of the field has perished.
¹² The vine dries up;
    ^(C)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
    all the trees of the field are dried up,
and ^(D)gladness dries up
    from the children of man.

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