Joel 1:16-18

New International Version - UK

¹⁶ Has not the food been cut off
    before our very eyes –
joy and gladness
    from the house of our God?
¹⁷ The seeds are shrivelled
    beneath the clods.^[a]
The storehouses are in ruins,
    the granaries have been broken down,
    for the grain has dried up.
¹⁸ How the cattle moan!
    The herds mill about
because they have no pasture;
    even the flocks of sheep are suffering.