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It has made my vine a desolation,
    and my fig tree a completely splintered stump.
It has stripped them bare and thrown them down;
    their branches have turned white.
Lament like a virgin girded in sackcloth
    for the husband of her youth.
The offering and libation are withheld
    from the house[a] of Yahweh.
The priests mourn,
    the ministers of Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:9 Or “temple”