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Both grain offering and wine offering have been removed from the Lord’s Temple;[a]
    the priests and ministering servants of the Lord are mourning.”

The Coming Famine

10 “The fields lie in ruins
    and the ground is dried up.[b]
Indeed, the grain is ruined,
    the new wine has evaporated,
        and the olive oil has run out.
11 Be dismayed, you farmers!
    Cry aloud, you vintners,
        for the wheat and barley,
    because the harvest in your fields has been lost.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:9 Or house; and so throughout the book
  2. Joel 1:10 Or ground mourns