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11 [a]Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished. 12 The vine is [b]withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is [c]withered away from the sons of men.

13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:11 Or, The husbandmen are confounded, the vinedressers wail
  2. Joel 1:12 Or, ashamed
  3. Joel 1:12 Or, ashamed

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

A Call to Lamentation

13 Put on sackcloth,(G) you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister(H) before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings(I)
    are withheld from the house of your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:12 Or possibly apricot