Joel 1:10-17

New International Version

¹⁰The fields are ruined,
    the ground is dried up;^(A)
the grain is destroyed,
    the new wine^(B) is dried up,
    the olive oil fails.^(C)

¹¹Despair, you farmers,^(D)
    wail, you vine growers;
grieve for the wheat and the barley,^(E)
    because the harvest of the field is destroyed.^(F)
¹²The vine is dried up
    and the fig tree is withered;^(G)
the pomegranate,^(H) the palm and the apple^[a] tree—
    all the trees of the field—are dried up.^(I)
Surely the people’s joy
    is withered away.

A Call to Lamentation

¹³Put on sackcloth,^(J) you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister^(K) before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings^(L)
    are withheld from the house of your God.
¹⁴Declare a holy fast;^(M)
    call a sacred assembly.
Summon the elders
    and all who live in the land^(N)
to the house of the Lord your God,
    and cry out^(O) to the Lord.^(P)

¹⁵Alas for that^(Q) day!
For the day of the Lord^(R) is near;
it will come like destruction from the Almighty.^[b]^(S)

¹⁶Has not the food been cut off^(T)
    before our very eyes—
joy and gladness^(U)
    from the house of our God?^(V)
¹⁷The seeds are shriveled
    beneath the clods.^[c]^(W)
The storehouses are in ruins,
    the granaries have been broken down,
    for the grain has dried up.