Joel 1:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁵ Alas for the day!
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,
joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?

¹⁷ The seed shrivels under the clods,^[b]
    the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are ruined
    because the grain has failed.