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16 We look on helpless as our crops are destroyed.
    There is no joy in the Temple of our God.
17 The seeds die in the dry earth.
There is no grain to be stored,
    and so the empty granaries are in ruins.
18 The cattle are bellowing in distress
    because there is no pasture for them;
    the flocks of sheep also suffer.

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16 Has not the food been cut off(A)
    before our very eyes—
joy and gladness(B)
    from the house of our God?(C)
17 The seeds are shriveled
    beneath the clods.[a](D)
The storehouses are in ruins,
    the granaries have been broken down,
    for the grain has dried up.
18 How the cattle moan!
    The herds mill about
because they have no pasture;(E)
    even the flocks of sheep are suffering.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 1:17 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.