The meat offering and the drink offering is [a]cut off from the house of the Lord: the Priests the Lord’s ministers mourn.

10 The field is wasted: the land mourneth: for the corn is destroyed: [b]the new wine is dried up, and the oil is decayed.

11 Be ye ashamed, O husbandmen: howl, O ye vinedressers for the wheat and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:9 The tokens of God’s wrath did appear in his Temple, insomuch as God’s service was left off.
  2. Joel 1:10 All comfort and substance for nourishment is taken away.

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