Joel 1:15-17

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¹⁵ Alas for the day!
^(A)For the day of the Lord is near,
    and as destruction from the Almighty^[a] it comes.
¹⁶ Is not the food cut off
    before our eyes,
^(B)joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?
^17 (C)The seed shrivels under the clods;^[b]
    the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are torn down
    because ^(D)the grain has dried up.